All the headlines from our Agribusiness Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 18 2011 // Tornadoes, violent thunderstorms, high wind and hail struck large swaths of Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas last week and now those states are beginning the process of assessing the damage.In Arkansas, storms...
Apr 12 2011 // Record flooding in parts of the U.S. Red River Valley has slowed grain movement, but lake-like fields are nothing new to farmers who battle flooding on some scale each spring, industry officials said.The Red River, which...
Apr 12 2011 // The budget deal agreed to by President Barack Obama and Republican and Democratic leaders last Friday to avoid a government shutdown calls for $28 billion in spending cuts to the budget to fund the government until Sept....
Apr 8 2011 // Kansas City, Mo.-based Ascension Insurance Inc. announced it acquired Walter L. Clark & Associates Inc., headquartered in Fresno, Calif., effective March 31, 2011.Walter L. Clark & Associates offers commercial...
Apr 7 2011 // The Paris-based International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) has issued a bulletin strongly supporting a call from the World Trade Organization (WTO) for a breakthrough in the Doha Round of talks in April, “if these...
Apr 1 2011 // Farmers and insurance agents who sell them federal crop insurance policies may soon be required to certify that they are not participating any rebating or incentive schemes related to the purchase of those policies.The...
Mar 30 2011 // In what appears to be its first foray into offering liability coverages, Zenith Insurance Co., a workers’ compensation insurance specialist, will be offering agribusiness insurance in California. Through its...
Mar 28 2011 // There were some weary insurance agents in the region March 16. There were plenty of farmers with better-than-usual crop insurance coverage, too.March 15 was the deadline for purchasing or modifying crop insurance for...
Mar 23 2011 // International reinsurance broker Guy Carpenter & Co. announced that it will receive a $1.0 million grant from the International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group.The grant will be used to help...
Mar 23 2011 // Ironshore Inc. has introduced Ironshore AgriProtection, an agriculture industry lead umbrella policy launched in response to increased demand from a large, middle market commercial agribusiness entities. Ironshore...
Mar 21 2011 // Arkansas’ economy has been less affected by the national recession than most other states because of its concentration on agricultural industries, according to a report released March 18.The report, issued by the...
Mar 21 2011 // Food prices continue to ride a rollercoaster. In the first quarter of 2011 the food price index of the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization set new records in real and nominal terms. While food prices...
Mar 9 2011 // Russell Consulting Group, a Midwest-based risk management and financial planning firm, and its majority owner Country Hedging Inc., commodity brokerage subsidiary of leading grains, energy and foods company CHS Inc., has...
Mar 7 2011 // Climate change bringing floods and drought, growing biofuel demand and national policies to protect domestic markets could boost global food prices and threaten long-term food security, the United Nations said.High and...
Mar 7 2011 // One of the snowiest winters on record for the Midwest and northern U.S. Plains have crop watchers worried about a repeat of the massive flooding that hit one of the world’s top grain producing regions in...
Mar 2 2011 // Global food prices are likely to keep rising as production struggles to match demand and extreme weather events become more frequent, a climate-change advisor to the Australian government said on Wednesday.Ross Garnaut...
Feb 25 2011 // A.M. Best Co. has affirmed the financial strength rating (FSR) of ‘A’ (Excellent) and issuer credit ratings (ICR) of “a” of Endurance Specialty Insurance Ltd. and its affiliates. Best also affirmed...
Feb 25 2011 // The agricultural insurance market is facing rising demand along with pressures to adapt to changes in farming and to become more efficient in delivering products.Increasing world demand for food is driving up commodity...
Feb 21 2011 // Increasing world demand for food is driving up commodity prices for corn, soybeans, wheat and other food staples. At the same time, the U.S. farming economy is strong, the federal crop insurance program is being changed,...
Feb 21 2011 // The Farmers Insurance Exchange agreed to pay $700 million for the naming rights to the proposed downtown Los Angeles football stadium and event center, a deal backers say is a big step towards attracting an NFL team to the...