All the headlines from our Agribusiness Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
Oct 6 2021 // The California FAIR Plan Association announced on Wednesday it has submitted a farm product rate filing to the California Department of Insurance ahead of a 90-day deadline.The deadline to make the filing was imposed in...
Oct 6 2021 // A federal judge has ordered the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to review its decision that a dairy farm built in northwest Indiana to house more than 4,000 cows is not subject to the Clean Water Act.Environmental groups and...
Oct 4 2021 // A dairy in northern Colorado has been fined nearly $25,000 after the death of a worker whose truck slipped into a pit filled with liquid manure. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration cited Shelton Land and...
Oct 4 2021 // Hurricane Ida’s winds and floods did at least $584 million in damage to agriculture in Louisiana, experts at the LSU AgCenter estimate.More than half of that — $315.9 million — is timber damage, with...
Sep 29 2021 // MS Amlin AG (MS AAG), the global reinsurer, announced its entry into the agriculture reinsurance market with the hire of Rinat Bektleuov as product group lead underwriter. Bektleuov joined the business in August 2021 and...
Sep 27 2021 // Hurricane Ida’s winds and floods did at least $584 million in damage to agriculture in Louisiana, experts at the LSU AgCenter estimate.More than half of that — $315.9 million — is timber damage, with another $207...
Sep 23 2021 // Three members of a South Dakota family accused of bilking millions from farmers due to risky speculation in the grain business have been sentenced to time behind bars.Jared Steffensen and his wife, Tami Steffensen, pleaded...
Sep 21 2021 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. acquired Bastrop, La.-based Files Agribusiness LLC, retail insurance agency specializing in federal crop insurance, agribusiness property/casualty and agricultural aviation coverages.Terms of...
Sep 21 2021 // Iowa-based farm services provider NEW Cooperative Inc. said its systems were offline to contain a “cybersecurity” incident just as the U.S. farm belt gears up for harvest.The cooperative operates grain storage...
Sep 17 2021 // Wisconsin’s largest ginseng producer is facing a federal lawsuit charging the company with subjecting female workers to hostile work environment and firing them for resisting, and for discriminating against employees...
Sep 7 2021 // Two of the industry’s biggest poultry companies have agreed to pay nearly $35 million to settle a lawsuit that accused them and several other firms of conspiring to dominate the industry and fix the prices paid to...
Sep 3 2021 // Conservation-minded corn farmers who “split apply” nitrogen will soon have another option for insurance coverage, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) says.Beginning in crop year 2022, the Risk Management...