All the headlines from our Agribusiness Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 26 2007 // California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner toured the Central Valley with Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger yesterday, meeting with area leaders and assessing the needs of the agricultural community following the recent...
Jan 26 2007 // A month after the first wave of devastating winter storms hit Colorado, some eastern Colorado ranchers still haven’t been able to get feed to their cattle, state Agriculture Commissioner John Stulp said.State...
Jan 26 2007 // Farmers Insurance Group of Companies, including Farmers Insurance Exchange and Mid-Century Insurance Company, is launching a full-year auto policy term to new customers in Montana, along with a six-month policy term...
Jan 24 2007 // Freezing temperatures that destroyed a wide swath of crops in California are expected to bring in a flood of claims, according to California regulators. With a $1 billion agricultural damage estimate, officials said citrus...
Jan 23 2007 // A recent proclamation by California’s Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner is allowing out-of-state insurance adjusters to be dispatched to California’s agricultural community to assist in the state of...
Jan 23 2007 // The Texas Cooperative Extension will be hosting a one-day course on Feb. 26 on incorporating federal crop and livestock insurance into marketing plans. The Extension is an educational organization provided by the U.S....
Jan 22 2007 // Damage from the crippling late-December snowstorm that blanketed western Kansas with snow and ice, downing power lines and killing thousands of head of cattle, will exceed $360 million.The Kansas Adjutant General’s...
Jan 22 2007 // As the chill air descended on California last weekend, citrus farmers were already prepared for the worst. Past freezes in 1990 and 1998 taught the state’s growers to insure crops that are one frigid night, hail...
Jan 19 2007 // A deep freeze that has ruined many winter crops in California’s agricultural zones has also wreaked havoc on the state’s urban centers in the form of frozen, broken pipes.Fire departments across Southern...
Jan 18 2007 // Insurance Skills Center is hosting its 20th Annual Agribusiness Conference on March 14-15, 2007, in Sacramento, Calif.The conference will focus on specialized farm and agricultural insurance education, with seven...
Jan 16 2007 // California’s $1 billion citrus industry suffered record-low temperatures this past weekend, and agriculture officials continue to worry about widespread crop destruction.Counties where most of the state’s...
Jan 12 2007 // At first glance it may not seem a very logical investment for an insurance company, but Germany’s Allianz Group has taken a strong stance in support of renewable energy. So the acquisition of two more wind farms...
Jan 12 2007 // Colorado lawmakers are trying to put pressure on the federal government to speed up aid to ranchers and county governments digging out from back-to-back blizzards on the southeastern plains.Sens. Ken Salazar, D-Colo., and...
Jan 11 2007 // Oklahoma Gov. Brad Henry on Jan. 9 requested a federal disaster declaration from President Bush for three counties in the Oklahoma Panhandle that were hit hard by an ice storm and snow storm last month.Residents of Beaver,...
Jan 10 2007 // Senators from the Dakotas are pushing for a permanent program to pay farmers and ranchers who have suffered devastating crop losses.North Dakota Sens. Byron Dorgan and Kent Conrad, both Democrats, and South Dakota...
Jan 8 2007 // Nearly 16,000 pounds of beef and buffalo sausage marketed as Maverick Sausage have been recalled from stores in 18 states, including Michigan, because of possible contamination with the bacterium Listeria monocytogenes.The...
Jan 3 2007 // The Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (the Big “I”) will again confront a number of legislative issues important to agents and brokers at both the state and federal levels in 2007,...
Jan 3 2007 // Colorado officials scrambled to find helicopters and other equipment on Tuesday in an effort to get hay to thousands of stranded cattle in the southeasten part of the state, five days after a snowstorm buried the region in...
Jan 3 2007 // In light of food poisoning outbreaks involving spinach and lettuce, the government and the produce industry are scrambling to make leafy greens safer before the spring planting season.New guidelines from the industry are...
Jan 2 2007 // In light of food poisoning outbreaks involving spinach and lettuce, the government and the produce industry are scrambling to make leafy greens safer before the spring planting season.New guidelines from the industry are...