All the headlines from our Agribusiness Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 6 2022 // At a 131-year-old maritime academy along Buzzards Bay in Massachusetts, people who will build the nation’s first commercial-scale offshore wind farm are learning the skills to stay safe while working around turbines...
Sep 2 2022 // There is only so much farmland in the United States, so when Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last spring prompted worries that people would go hungry as wheat remained stuck in blockaded ports, there was little U.S....
Sep 1 2022 // A mid-Michigan organic dairy farm is fighting state safety regulators, five years after a 19-year-old family member was fatally electrocuted while removing a metal pole from a grain bin.The dispute involves the...
Aug 15 2022 // A Georgia dairy farm has been fined after a release of food waste caused a fish kill, a rare instance of government getting involved with a practice that counties can’t regulate despite chronic complaints from...
Aug 15 2022 // Premiums in the federal multi-peril crop insurance (MPCI) program surged in 2021 to a record high of $14.9 billion, an increase of nearly 40% over the previous year, according to an AM Best report.The new Best’s...
Aug 12 2022 // European nations sent firefighting teams to help France tackle a “monster” wildfire on Thursday, while forest blazes also raged in Spain and Portugal and the head of the European Space Agency urged immediate...
Aug 8 2022 // Malaysia will offer government-backed insurance plans to help compensate farmers for losses after natural disasters, as part of measures to strengthen food security.The Agro-Food Takaful Insurance Scheme will be launched...
Jul 29 2022 // Premiums in the federal multi-peril crop insurance (MPCI) program surged in 2021 to a record high of $14.9 billion, an increase of nearly 40% over the previous year, according to an AM Best report.The new Best’s...
Jul 21 2022 // This edition of International People Moves details board changes at Beazley and appointments at Miller and AXA XL.A summary of these new hires follows here. Beazley’s Chair Roberts to Step DownBeazley plc announced...
Jul 18 2022 // Weeks of heat and scant rainfall have left most of Indiana facing either drought or unusually dry conditions while farmers hope significant precipitation falls soon.The U.S. Drought Monitor shows more than a third of...
Jul 11 2022 // Invasive giant African land snails that can eat building plaster and stucco, consume hundreds of varieties of plants and carry diseases that affect humans have been found once again in Florida, where officials said that...
Jun 30 2022 // Global grain markets are at a pivot point, with prices finally starting to ease after a dizzying surge earlier this year. Where things go from here could end up being determined by farmers like Justin Sherlock and the...
Jun 24 2022 // Infrastructure owned by two major agriculture traders was damaged in Russian attacks at one of the biggest crop-handling ports in Ukraine, adding to the mounting losses suffered by its farm sector.Rocket strikes on the...
Jun 16 2022 // Ukraine has suffered $4.3 billion in damage to farmland, machinery and livestock as a result of Russia’s invasion, according to the Kyiv School of Economics.About half of the “already immense” destruction...
Jun 16 2022 // The extent of the damage to one of the biggest agricultural complexes in Ukraine earlier this month was confirmed by satellite images.The Nika-Tera complex, which was opened in 2011 was rendered “unusable”...
Jun 9 2022 // Investors managing $14 trillion have urged the United Nations to create a global plan to make the agriculture sector sustainable and curb one of the biggest sources of climate-damaging emissions, a letter seen by Reuters...
Jun 2 2022 // North Dakota farmer Dwight Grotberg wanted to plant more wheat this spring to capitalize on soaring prices since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine cut grain exports and left the world short of millions of tonnes of wheat...
May 20 2022 // Zurich’s Climate FieldView Expands Precision Crop Information for RCISZurich North America crop insurance business – Rural Community Insurance Services (RCIS) – has added Climate FieldView to its list of...
May 19 2022 // Farmers in parts of Canada’s Prairies are struggling to get crops in the ground as heavy rains continue to wallop the eastern region in the latest threat to global grain supplies.Virtually no seeding has been done in...
May 18 2022 // When Florida Farm Bureau Insurance companies filed for a 41% rate increase for homeowners last December, the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation asked company actuaries to sharpen their pencils, review all data and try...