All the headlines from our Agribusiness Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 22 2008 // Hurricane Gustav caused an estimated $372 million in damage to Louisiana crops, agriculture officials said. The storm overflowed crawfish and catfish ponds, causing an estimated $46 million in damages to fisheries.Gustav...
Sep 19 2008 // Texas’ top agriculture official has asked his federal counterparts for money to help Southeast Texas ranchers and farmers deal with the long-term needs created by Hurricane Ike.No dollar amount was specified but it...
Sep 17 2008 // At least 20,000 head of livestock are roaming loose throughout several Southeast Texas counties, said state officials who are working to get feed and water to the cattle and horses that have been without either since...
Sep 10 2008 // Hurricane Ike entered the Gulf of Mexico on Sept. 9 and the latest path projected by the National Hurricane Center has the storm making landfall in Texas, possibly near Corpus Christi. Meanwhile, Louisiana is still mopping...
Sep 8 2008 // A state and federal report concluded that last summer’s lightning- and cheatgrass-stoked Murphy Complex fire that torched 1,000 square miles of Idaho and Nevada backcountry would have overwhelmed efforts by ranchers...
Sep 3 2008 // Hudson Insurance Group, the U.S. insurance division of Odyssey Re Holdings Corp., has purchased the assets pertaining to the crop insurance business of CropUSA Insurance Agency, Inc.Since 2006 CropUSA has acted as managing...
Aug 25 2008 // Mark Toohey has been promoted to senior vice president of media relations for Los Angeles-based, Farmers Insurance Co. In his new role, Toohey will be responsible for leading and managing all media relations, external...
Aug 22 2008 // California, the nation’s leader in heat-related deaths among farmworkers, sought to turn that trend around three years ago with new laws aimed at ensuring people toiling in sweltering fields had such basics as a...
Aug 22 2008 // A judge in Arkansas has released a handful of the million-plus documents offered under seal in a lawsuit over genetically modified rice.Some Arkansas rice farmers claim they lost money after genetically altered rice grown...
Aug 21 2008 // An aerial photo shows a flooded area of downtown looking North over Cedar Rapids, Iowa, June 13, 2008. Interstate I-380 can be seen on the left while Mays Island, with Cedar Rapids City Hall, is seen on the right with its...
Aug 18 2008 // Florida Farm Bureau will withdraw its rate filing and prepare a new rate filing to address any and all of Florida regulators’ concerns, according to a company announcement. The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation...
Aug 14 2008 // A world trade deal that dramatically opens livestock markets in the European Union, Canada and Japan is within grasp, if talks that collapsed last month in Geneva can be revived.U.S. Trade Representative Susan Schwab...
Aug 14 2008 // Farmers Insurance Group notified its North Carolina agents that the insurer will pull out of the homeowners’ market across the state before year’s end.Independent agent Greg Reeder of Reeder Insurance Services...
Aug 6 2008 // Charlotte, N.C.-based Montgomery Insurance, a Liberty Mutual Agency Markets regional company, introduced its farm line of business on Commercial IQ — a web-based application for quoting and application...
Aug 5 2008 // AIR Worldwide Corporation announced that Bermuda-based reinsurer Tokio Millennium Re Ltd. has licensed the use of AIR’s Multiple Peril Crop Insurance (MPCI) model for use in AIR’s CATRADER® system, which...
Aug 5 2008 // Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty said the Office of Insurance Regulation issued a notice of intent to disapprove the June 20 rate filing submitted by Florida Farm Bureau Insurance Companies – Farm Bureau...
Aug 4 2008 // Ohio Casualty, a Liberty Mutual Agency Markets regional company, today announced the introduction of its farm line of business (ISO Division Four) on Commercial IQ, its web-based application for quoting and application...
Aug 4 2008 // Iowa Gov. Chet Culver said July 22 that state officials have identified $1.2 billion in flood damage that hasn’t been met by disaster aid, and he’s asking Congress to move quickly to provide more...
Aug 1 2008 // The federal government approved a disaster declaration to cover the losses Big Island farmers have suffered as a result of volcanic smog (vog), from Kilauea, Hawaii.The move will allow Big Island farmers to apply for...
Jul 31 2008 // Clovis, CA, July 31, 2008 – Topa Insurance Company, headquartered in Los Angeles, CA is an admitted property and casualty specialty insurer writing personal lines, commercial lines and programs. Topa has partnered...