All the headlines from our Agribusiness Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 21 2022 // California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara on Friday approved the FAIR Plan to offer new commercial coverage for farm structure risks starting Feb. 1.The FAIR Plan is an association made up of all admitted insurance...
Jan 19 2022 // The U.S. Department of Agriculture reported two more cases of highly pathogenic avian flu in wild birds on Tuesday, raising risks for potential infections in poultry.The USDA on Friday reported the nation’s first...
Jan 18 2022 // Zurich North America announced the following changes: Jason Meador, currently head of Captives at Zurich North America, has been appointed to lead the Rural Community Insurance Services crop insurance business following...
Jan 6 2022 // Corn farmers who “split-apply” nitrogen now have another option for insurance coverage after the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Risk Management Agency (RMA) announced the details of its Post...
Jan 3 2022 // An independent adjuster who helped Central Kentucky tobacco farmers file millions of dollars in fraudulent crop insurance claims is the latest member of a fraud ring to face prison time for the scheme.Timothy Douglas...
Dec 22 2021 // The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is assessing whether the herbicide dicamba can be sprayed on soybean and cotton plants genetically engineered to resist the chemical, without the procedure posing...
Dec 10 2021 // Alfredo Casas, 62, of Stockton, California, has been arraigned on 15 felony counts of insurance fraud, grand theft and tax evasion.Casas allegedly underreported payroll for his farm labor contracting business by over $1...
Dec 10 2021 // Automaker Toyota’s insurance arm has begun selling its first branded insurance coverage, Toyota Auto Insurance, in Arizona, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and South Carolina, and will soon be offering the coverage in...
Dec 6 2021 // A food distributor in Hawaii has filed a federal lawsuit against a dairy company because milk from the mainland is allegedly being sold under a name that advertises local ties.The lawsuit filed by Hawaii Foodservice...
Dec 3 2021 // The U.S. Department of Agriculture is changing some rules around crop insurance for hemp, including making the insurability requirements more flexible.USDA’s Risk Management Agency (RMA) has also added a new...
Dec 3 2021 // Severe flooding episodes across vast swathes of eastern Australia this week show no signs of relenting as costs to farmers continue to mount, with another bout of heavy rain on course to hit the already sodden growing...
Dec 3 2021 // Hundreds of thousands of livestock have perished in floodwaters in Canada’s westernmost province, the British Columbia government said Thursday.Back-to-back deluges from atmospheric rivers have damaged major...
Nov 29 2021 // A food distributor in Hawaii has filed a federal lawsuit against a dairy company because milk from the mainland is allegedly being sold under a name that advertises local ties.The lawsuit filed by Hawaii Foodservice...
Nov 5 2021 // IWAKI, Japan – Farmers in Japan’s northeastern Fukushima fear the release of water from the crippled power plant there could revive concerns about contamination and again hit the price of their produce, undoing a...
Nov 1 2021 // The labor shortage in California has hit the agriculture industry particularly hard, creating a tougher environment all around – including for insurance professionals who deal in that sector.The lack of labor in the...
Oct 26 2021 // A reward is being offered as investigators try to find whoever has set at least a dozen barn fires at northern Indiana farms this year.The Farm Bureau groups in Elkhart, Kosciusko, St. Joseph and Marshall counties created...
Oct 21 2021 // Credit-rating agency AM Best has downgraded its outlook for Florida Farm Bureau Casualty Co., from stable to negative, due to the company’s declining surplus in a disaster-prone state.“The revised outlooks...
Oct 18 2021 // The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is rolling out a new insurance option specifically for small farms that sell their products locally.USDA’s Risk Management Agency (RMA) created this new policy based on...
Oct 8 2021 // The U.S. Department of Agriculture is working on a proposal for a waiver system for hog plants forced by a federal court to slow processing lines, Secretary Tom Vilsack said on Thursday.Waivers to allow plants to speed up...
Oct 7 2021 // The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is rolling out a new insurance option specifically for agricultural producers with small farms who sell locally.USDA said the new Micro Farm policy simplifies record keeping and...