All the headlines from our Agribusiness Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 18 2005 // The Vermont Senate has approved a bill that would make seed manufacturers rather than farmers liable for damages from genetically modified crops. The measure is designed to help farmers recover losses from the accidental...
Apr 3 2005 // The Vermont Senate last week gave preliminary approval to a bill that would make seed manufacturers rather than farmers liable for damages from genetically modified crops.As the measure heads for a final vote, an amendment...
Mar 28 2005 // Appleton, Wis.-based SECURA Insurance Cos. announced that it will soon introduce a desktop farm rating software program for its agents. The program, called AgRate, will be downloaded through its Web site. Agents will...
Mar 21 2005 // Farmers Insurance Group of Companies announced it will lower rates for its auto customers in the state of Colorado. Effective April 1, 2005, Farmers’ customers in Colorado will see a rate decrease that will average...
Mar 18 2005 // The Fresno, California office of Hilb Rogal & Hobbs Insurance Services recently hired Kaye Wells as marketing director. Wells brings 21 years of industry experience to HRH having worked in various areas of insurance...
Mar 7 2005 // Farmers Insurance Group of Companies announced Monday it will lower rates for its auto customers in the state of Colorado.Effective April 1, 2005, Farmers’ customers in Colorado will see a rate decrease that will...
Mar 7 2005 // A warning to prepare for the worst and hope for the best has been issued by researchers who discovered late last year that when Hurricane Ivan tore across the southeastern U.S. it brought with it wind-borne soybean rust...
Mar 1 2005 // Willis Group Holdings has announced the formation of a new Agri-Business Practice which is based in Lexington, Ky. A team of risk management and insurance professionals with experience in agriculture and animal mortality...
Feb 7 2005 // Justice David Puryear with the Third District Court of Appeals in Austin, Texas, on Jan. 21 struck down a $117.5 million settlement Farmers Insurance Group reached with the state in 2002 over homeowners insurance...
Jan 31 2005 // Although the world’s developed and developing nations still appear to be far apart on concluding new agreements on international trade, they’ve at least agreed to make a new attempt to do so.The so-called Doha...
Jan 27 2005 // A.M. Best Co. has affirmed the financial strength ratings of A++ (Superior) of Southern Farm Bureau Casualty Group (SFB) (Ridgeland, Miss.). The rating outlook has been revised to stable from negative.Concurrently, A.M....
Jan 25 2005 // While most people associate fatal auto crashes with speeding or drunk driving, making a trip to the grocery store could prove just as, if not, more treacherous.A new survey conducted by the Farmers Insurance Group of...
Jan 21 2005 // Justice David Puryear with the 3rd District Court of Appeals in Austin, Texas, on Jan. 21 struck down a $117.5 million settlement Farmers Insurance Group reached with the state in 2002 over homeowners rates.Texas Attorney...
Dec 28 2004 // The Republic Group, headquartered in Dallas, introduced a new farm and ranch program that will be available beginning Jan. 3, 2005.According to the company, the new program includes farm and ranch property, machinery and...
Dec 23 2004 // A pilot program for rangeland insurance, criticized by some for how it calculated losses, has been revamped and expanded to include more producers in Montana and Wyoming, a federal agriculture official said Dec....
Dec 22 2004 // A two-and-a-half year old federal crop insurance fraud case has resurfaced in Mississippi, with questions arising about if a 1998 cotton crop was insurable.In 2002, Judge Neal Biggers, dismissed four federal crop insurance...
Dec 20 2004 // Pennsylvania Gov. Edward G. Rendell has signed into law several bills affecting the insurance industry, including one on crop insurance awareness and another on insurance company surplus contributions. Senate Bill 912,...
Dec 14 2004 // An announcement from Zurich Financial Services Group notes that Martin D. Feinstein (56) will retire effective March 31, 2005, as CEO of Farmers Group Inc. (FGI). He will also step down from his position on Zurich’s...
Dec 7 2004 // U.S. Sen. Daniel Inouye toured the University of Hawaii-Manoa campus recently, and came away saying flood damage would top $50 million.The veteran Democrat visited the campus in preparation for asking for federal...
Dec 7 2004 // Oregon’s highest court has ruled against Farmers Insurance, saying the insurance company had no right to deduct the payouts an injured woman received from two other insurance sources.In 1988, Terrel Ann Bergmann was...