All the headlines from our Agribusiness Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
May 16 2022 // Core Specialty Names Ann Brady as Senior Vice President of AgricultureCore Specialty Insurance Holdings, Inc. and its subsidiaries named Ann Brady as senior vice president of agriculture reporting directly to Bill Fischer,...
May 13 2022 // WILSONS, Va.— Soon after Jim Medeiros bought his 143-acre (58-hectare) cattle and poultry farm in rural Virginia a decade ago, he and his wife were startled by the sounds of 20 hunting dogs barking and howling as they...
May 13 2022 // Insurer AXA and consumer goods group Unilever plan to invest 100 million euros each into a new 1 billion euro ($1.06 billion) regenerative agriculture fund to be managed by Tikehau Capital, the three groups said on...
May 12 2022 // Marsh Launches Renewable Energy FacilityInsurance broker Marsh announced the launch of a renewable energy facility that provides streamlined, dedicated insurance capacity for mid-scale solar and battery energy storage...
May 12 2022 // As Russia’s invasion chokes off Ukrainian wheat exports, pushing up bread and noodle prices, the global harvest faces an added test: extreme weather.Droughts, flooding and heatwaves threaten output from the U.S. to...
May 9 2022 // The U.S. Department of Agriculture says drought during the growing season has made farmers in most of Texas, all of Louisiana and parts of Arkansas and Mississippi eligible to apply for federal aid.The department’s...
May 2 2022 // Howden, the London-based insurance broker, has worked with Munich Re and Skyline Partners to develop a product that protects the Jamaican Co-operative Credit Union League (JCCUL) against non-repayment of micro-loans from...
May 2 2022 // The Virginia Supreme Court has ruled that an all-terrain vehicle (ATV) is not a “farm type vehicle” covered by a homeowner’s insurance policy, reversing a lower court decision.The lower court ruled for...
Apr 27 2022 // The California Labor Commissioner’s Office cited three temporary staffing agencies as well as joint employers Foster Farms, LLC and Foster Poultry Farms nearly $3.8 million for failure to inform 3,476 temporary...
Apr 20 2022 // Agropur, Inc., a dairy processor and U.S. subsidiary of Canadian-based Agropur Cooperative, will pay $79,000 and provide other relief to settle a federal disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment...
Apr 18 2022 // Brownyard’s ‘By The Cover’ Now 15 Additional StatesNew York-based program administrator Brownyard Group announced that its By The Cover, its insurance program for libraries, is now available in 15...
Apr 18 2022 // The Virginia Supreme Court has ruled that an all-terrain vehicle (ATV) is not a “farm type vehicle” covered by a homeowner’s insurance policy, reversing a lower court that ruled in favor of coverage.The...
Apr 13 2022 // AM Best has downgraded the Financial Strength Rating to A- (Excellent) from A (Excellent) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating to “a-” (Excellent) from “a” (Excellent) of Louisiana Farm Bureau...
Apr 13 2022 // Ray Farmer would probably never be accused of being a “caretaker” government official or a mere bureaucrat.“He’s accomplished a lot in the position. He’ll be leaving behind some big shoes to...
Apr 11 2022 // With his hands stuffed deep into his pockets, Landan Wilson looks down at the ground and scuffs his boot back and forth against the loose blades of alfalfa hay scattered on the dirt.It’s early March, and Wilson is...
Apr 7 2022 // Bird flu has infected two more farms in Iowa, forcing the killing of 5.3 million hens and 88,000 turkeys, officials said.The new cases mean that across the nation, farmers have had to kill about 22 million birds, mostly...