All the headlines from our Agribusiness Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 11 2023 // One month after it announced it would stop writing new homeowner policies in Florida, Farmers Insurance now says it plans to cut back further on its presence in the hurricane-prone state.The Florida Office of Insurance...
Jul 7 2023 // Farmers will limit new homeowners insurance policies in California, according to a statement issued by the carrier that follows a similar decision by State Farm last month and adds to a growing list of major carriers...
Jul 5 2023 // Forty-four farms in Mississippi exploited local Black workers by paying higher wages to immigrants who were in the United States on temporary work visas, the U.S. Labor Department said Wednesday.The department announced it...
Jun 30 2023 // A central Kentucky farmer who is also a county official has changed his plea, admitting to charges of crop insurance fraud. Randall Taulbee, a Bourbon County magistrate, pleaded guilty to two counts of conspiracy to...
Jun 16 2023 // Farmers Insurance has confirmed it has halted sales of new homeowners policies in Florida just as the new hurricane season is getting underway.The insurer cited rising costs as the reason. “With catastrophe costs at...
Jun 9 2023 // New Farmers Group CEO Raul Vargas has reversed a prior company decision to allow most workers to do their jobs from home by instituting a hybrid work schedule starting in September.Despite some employees reportedly making...
Jun 7 2023 // After two weeks of continuous heavy rains, a farmer surnamed Chen in China’s Henan province surveys bent stalks of saturated wheat in sodden fields that will take days to dry out before harvesting can start.The rains...
Jun 5 2023 // A Kentucky farmer and his sister-in-law have pleaded guilty to a multi-year scheme to defraud the Federal Crop Insurance Corp. and companies the FCIC reinsures. ARMTech Insurance Services, now part of AgriSompo North...
Jun 2 2023 // Vermont officials are concerned that widespread frost across the state last week may have severely damaged thousands of acres of crops, including fruits, produce, berries and wine.Temperatures dropped below freezing in...
Jun 1 2023 // The driver of the semitruck involved in a fatal crash on Interstate 5 in Oregon earlier this month that left seven farmworkers dead has been indicted on charges of manslaughter, court documents show.A grand jury in Marion...
May 30 2023 // The families of four young men killed and buried on a Pennsylvania farm have settled their wrongful-death lawsuits against the man who confessed in the killings and his parentsCosmo DiNardo, who was 20 at the time,...
May 25 2023 // LUBBOCK — On the eve of another drought-ridden growing season, farmers from the High Plains are asking state and national lawmakers to provide a stronger financial safety net.In Austin and Washington, D.C., farmers from...
May 24 2023 // A bipartisan bill proposed by federal lawmakers would provide farmers a discount on crop insurance premiums by planting cover crops.The Conversation Opportunity and Voluntary Environment Resilience (COVER) Act, proposed...
May 23 2023 // A settlement in New York in a wage theft case has resulted in two dairy farm workers receiving nearly $150,000 in back wages.The New York State Department of Labor (NYSDOL) said its investigators found that Lewis County...
May 22 2023 // The victims of one of Oregon’s deadliest highway crashes were farmworkers traveling in a van at an hour when agricultural laborers typically commute home after toiling in the harvest, the state’s farmworkers...
May 19 2023 // Three employees of the largest agricultural research facility in the U.S. have filed federal whistleblower complaints alleging that the facility’s conditions are hazardous to workers and undermine their research,...
May 18 2023 // AM Best downgraded the Financial Strength Rating to B++ (Good) from A- (Excellent) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating to “bbb+” (Good) from “a-” (Excellent) of Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance...
May 17 2023 // One of Wisconsin’s largest dairy operations has reached a settlement with state environmental regulators to that calls for the company to eventually stop spreading liquid manure in exchange for avoiding groundwater...
May 15 2023 // America’s wheat fields have become so plagued by drought that farmers are now poised to abandon crops at the highest rate in more than a century.Producers are expected to harvest about 67% of their planted acres, the...
May 5 2023 // A federal jury has awarded a Georgia couple $135.5 million for damages to their property by a Tennessee-based solar company and its contractor.The award against Silicon Ranch Corp. and its contractor, IEA Inc., was...