All the headlines from our Agribusiness Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 6 2006 // A farm mutual tax bill introduced by the National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies and the Mutual Insurance Companies Association of Indiana recently passed the Indiana General Assembly.According to a written...
Mar 6 2006 // American agriculture 15 years from now will be a vital, more profitable sector of the economy, successfully competing with foreign commodities, according to a new report released by the American Farm Bureau Federation.The...
Mar 6 2006 // Farm Bureaus across the nation will make safety a priority this spring by participating in the Agricultural Safety Awareness Program during Agricultural Safety Awareness Week, March 5-11, 2006.The purpose of the program is...
Mar 6 2006 // The Agribusiness Conference, hosted by the Insurance Skills Center, is filed for continuing education credits in more than 30 states. Conference locations for 2006 include: March 15-16 Sacramento, Calif.; May 22-23...
Feb 24 2006 // Nodak Mutual Insurance Co. isn’t required to hold contested elections for its board of directors, nor is Insurance Commissioner Jim Poolman obliged to force the company to do so, the North Dakota state Supreme Court...
Feb 24 2006 // American National Insurance Company, headquartered in Galveston, Texas, announced that its Board of Directors declared a quarterly dividend of 75 cents per share on its common stock payable March 17, 2006, to shareholders...
Feb 24 2006 // Farmers Insurance Exchange has begun serving civil summons and complaints upon Redding, California auto glass company Onsight Auto Glass and its owner, accusing them of taking part in a scheme designed to defraud Farmers...
Feb 22 2006 // The Farmers Insurance Group of Companies reported the introduction of a new homeowner’s insurance policy, called “Texas Family Home Policy.” This new policy offers more coverage choices, new discounts,...
Feb 21 2006 // Coal mining, logging, firefighting represent just a handful of the dozens of jobs that spring to mind when it comes to dangerous work.Farming isn’t often one of them. But data shows agriculture is outpacing mining as...
Feb 21 2006 // To honor African-American History Month, Farmers Insurance Group will debut the “Freedom’s Song” program along with various elected officials at the California African American Museum in downtown Los...
Feb 21 2006 // Penn Millers Insurance Company, based in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., has created business units to focus on agribusiness and general commercial business.“The creation of dedicated business units enables us to align specific...
Feb 20 2006 // Farmers Insurance Group has been fined $1 million following settlement negotiations about how it handled consumer claims. Farmers, consisting of Farmers Insurance Exchange, Fire Insurance Exchange, Mid-Century Insurance...
Feb 20 2006 // Introduction to Insurance Glendale Community College (Calif.) has added new credit courses for training in the insurance industry. Courses were developed as part of a $1.2 million President’s Community-Based Job...
Feb 19 2006 // Glendale Community College (Calif.) has added new credit courses for training in the insurance industry. Courses were developed as part of a $1.2 million President’s Community-Based Job Training Grant involving 16...
Feb 16 2006 // California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi has announced that Gary Calcagno, 48, of Carlsbad, Calif., has been sentenced to three years probation and ordered to pay $13,460 restitution for stealing premiums from 20...
Feb 10 2006 // If you overeat and gain weight, you’ll have to rely on diet and exercise – not a lawsuit – to solve the problem under legislation approved by an Oklahoma House of Representatives committee.House Bill...
Feb 8 2006 // The nation’s largest two-day conference focusing on farm and agribusiness insurance risks will be held March 15-16, 2006 in Sacramento, CA at the beautiful Radisson Resort Hotel. This 19th Annual Agribusiness...
Feb 6 2006 // Satellite Images Used to Detect Crop Fraud When thinking of satellite images most think of in terms of space exploration, but not as showing up in courtrooms to help prosecutors prove crop insurance fraud. Now the...
Feb 6 2006 // Is the valuation revolution coming to farm insurance?For several years now, residential and commercial property insurance specialists have been employing new automated systems to refine their calculations of the value of...
Feb 6 2006 // Insurers writing monoline farm policies and incidental professional liability coverage may face additional work to clarify coverage for their insureds under the federal terrorism reinsurance program.Officials of the U.S....