All the headlines from our Agribusiness Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 15 2011 // Crews in Hamburg, Iowa, were busy June 14 building up a secondary barrier to protect the small Iowa town after the swollen Missouri River punched a massive hole in the main levee.The river ruptured two levees in northwest...
Jun 10 2011 // Ohio farmer Jeff Hoak was excited and anxious at the same time. His wedding was coming up, and many of his corn fields had yet to be planted.The grain gods smiled on him. The weather broke and he finished planting his corn...
Jun 10 2011 // Swiss Re is to reinsure a five-year project that provides drought insurance for crops in Ethiopia, in a microinsurance program developed by the World Food Program (WFP) and Oxfam America.The world’s biggest reinsurer...
Jun 6 2011 // German-grown beansprouts could be the source of the deadly E.coli outbreak that has killed 22 people, made more than 2,000 ill and struck fear into consumers across Europe, officials said on Sunday.The Lower Saxony state...
Jun 6 2011 // Compromise on Lawsuits“You can be assured that you can go to the courthouse and not face the prospect of ruination by pursuing a constitutional right.” —Texas trial attorney Mike Gallagher comments on a...
Jun 3 2011 // Abram Interstate Insurance Services has named Rebecca Donahue a commercial lines account manager to be based in the company’s Rocklin, Calif., office. She will focus on agribusiness exposures. Donahue has more than...
Jun 3 2011 // As the rivers running through eastern Arkansas start to recede, residents and farmers are beginning to cope with the aftermath of devastating floods — ruined homes, ravaged farmland and major holes in local...
Jun 1 2011 // Texas law permits an insurer to use race-neutral factors in credit scoring to price personal lines of insurance. That’s the conclusion the Texas Supreme Court came to in considering a certified question from the...
May 31 2011 // Flood warnings are in effect for seven Utah counties as three rivers flow over their banks.The National Weather Service says the Weber River and Lost Creek in northern Utah are flooding and the Sevier River in central Utah...
May 31 2011 // Officials say tornadoes that touched down in a rural area of Northern California destroyed hundreds of acres of almond orchards. The twisters hit Butte and Glenn counties on May 25. Colleen Cecil with the Butte County Farm...
May 20 2011 // Kyle B. Anderson, Diane M. Dierna, Winford (Win) L. Logan and Jeffrey (Jeff) D. Wilson have been elected assistant vice presidents by the boards of directors of State Automobile Mutual and State Auto Property &...
May 18 2011 // Agriculture and Forestry Commissioner Mike Strain D.V.M., said the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has guaranteed that Morganza Spillway farmers whose crops have been damaged by flooding caused by the...
May 18 2011 // North Dakota Farmers Union is seeking a 10-day extension on the crop insurance planting deadline for some crops. Farmers see reduced insurance coverage if they don’t meet deadlines for planting their crops. Farmers...
May 16 2011 // The flooding that has inundated low-lying communities and farmland for miles along the Upper and Lower Mississippi River is due to a large, slow-moving storm system that was spawned nearly a month ago.“The flooding...
May 16 2011 // Alphabetical listing Acuity a Mutual Insurance Co. AIU Insurance Co. Alaska National Insurance Co. American Commerce Insurance Co. American Family Mutual Insurance Co. American Hallmark Insurance Co. of TX American...
May 15 2011 // About $4.2 million is heading to Arkansas to help with housing and other needs following recent flooding, state and federal emergency management officials said.Housing assistance is provided to individuals, families and...
May 13 2011 // Another dry week in the southern United States has driven the spread of a devastating drought further across Texas and neighboring states, promising to add to economic losses that could top $3 billion.Texas, suffering its...
May 12 2011 // Responding to objections from Gov. Jay Nixon, Missouri lawmakers passed a revised bill that would restrict the ability of neighboring property owners to bring nuisance lawsuits against large, smelly hog farms.The...
May 12 2011 // The Mississippi River took aim at one of the most poverty-stricken parts of the U.S. Wednesday, leaving some low-lying Memphis neighborhoods inundated, but the city’s high levees protected much of the rest.In...
May 11 2011 // Louisiana Agriculture and Forestry Commissioner Mike Strain, D.V.M., is urging the United States Department of Agriculture Office of Risk Management to categorize the opening of the Morganza Spillway as a natural...