All the headlines from our Agribusiness Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 31 2007 // North Carolina field crops are predicted to suffer great losses as a result of the state’s drought conditions.Soybean yields are projected to be at 20 bushels per acre, which will be the lowest yield since 1983....
Oct 30 2007 // Wind-driven wildfires that torched Southern California have charred fruit orchards, wilted flowers and littered the ground with avocados, delivering a devastating blow to area farmers already reeling from a deep winter...
Oct 26 2007 // The U.S. Department of Agriculture is considering imposing a new set of national regulations to lower the risk of foodborne illness in salad greens.The USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service says its new proposal for...
Oct 25 2007 // A drought report released Tuesday says 17 North Carolina water systems serving hundreds of thousands of residents are near a crisis-level shortage. The lengthy drought has strained North Carolina’s water systems and...
Oct 22 2007 // Max Bermuda, the operating company of the Max Capital Group, announced an expansion of its Dublin unit with the appointment of Michael W. Dicker as Senior Vice President – Agriculture at Max Re Europe Limited, Max...
Oct 22 2007 // More than a dozen South Carolina clam farmers who claimed most of their crop was spoiled by an oil spill five years ago have settled a lawsuit with a shipping line and a dredging firm for nearly $1.8 million.Under the...
Oct 17 2007 // Three San Luis Valley, Colo., farms have been ordered to turn over records to a federal investigator looking into whether they illegally sold potatoes after collecting up to $1.3 million in federal insurance payments on...
Oct 12 2007 // Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire has asked that 10 counties be declared federal disaster areas because of crop damage from drought and wildfires started by lightning.Low-interest federal loans to hard-hit farmers under a...
Oct 9 2007 // Los Angeles-based Farmers Insurance Group Inc. named John Ingersoll vice president of marketing. In addition to having resposibility for marketing, advertising and brand awareness, he will work closely with Farmers’...
Oct 8 2007 // Florida’s valued policy law means property insurance companies are only responsible for actual damages caused by perils that are specifically cited in the policy, the Florida Supreme Court has affirmed in a key...
Oct 8 2007 // Florida’s valued policy law means property insurance companies are only responsible for actual damages caused by perils that are specifically cited in the policy, the Florida Supreme Court has affirmed in a key...
Oct 5 2007 // Insurance Skills Center and the Independent Insurance Agents of Iowa will present a two-day conference focusing on farm and agribusiness insurance risks, Oct. 22-23, 2007 in Des Moines, Iowa.The Midwest Agribusiness...
Oct 4 2007 // Kentucky farmers struggling to cope with a prolonged drought can seek emergency loans to help offset crop losses after state officials received word Tuesday of a federal disaster declaration due to the dry...
Oct 3 2007 // If conditions remain unchanged, West Virginia faces the worst fire season in 20 years and could lose as much as 4 percent of its forests to flames.The hottest, driest summer in recent memory has left a big chunk of West...
Oct 3 2007 // First comes the “wind shower.” Wearing overalls and rubber boots, employees at Fusheng Food Co. in Qingdao stand in a narrow room as air jets in the walls blow away any dust on them. They wade through...
Oct 3 2007 // American laboratories handling the world’s deadliest germs and toxins have experienced more than 100 accidents and missing shipments since 2003, and the number is increasing steadily as more labs across the country...
Sep 27 2007 // Swiss Re announced the launch of its “Climate Adaptation Development Program” (CADP) at the Clinton Global Initiative 2007 meeting, which took place in New York on Sept.26-28.The Program is “designed to...
Sep 24 2007 // The United States excess and surplus lines market presents opportunities that are not lost on the rest of the world. Lloyd’s is the second largest U.S. surplus lines writer with a 14 percent market share. Direct...
Sep 24 2007 // Farmers Insurance has refunded $1.4 million to thousands of California homeowners and agreed to pay $2 million in penalties to settle complaints that the company overcharged policyholders, officials said.The settlement...
Sep 24 2007 // Farmers Insurance fined $2 million; company refunds $1.4 millionFarmers Insurance has refunded $1.4 million to thousands of California homeowners and agreed to pay $2 million in penalties to settle complaints that the...