All the headlines from our Agribusiness Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 19 2018 // The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has designated three Louisiana parishes as contiguous disaster areas as the result of excessive rain and flooding that occurred April 1 to June 30, 2018, according to Agriculture...
Nov 16 2018 // A Kentucky woman was sentenced to five years in prison and ordered to pay $1.6 million in restitution for crop insurance fraud. The U.S. attorney’s office in Lexington said 63-year-old Debra Muse of the Wallingford...
Nov 15 2018 // A federal safety agency has proposed fining a company in connection with the death of an employee who was working in a Hall County, Nebraska, cornfield. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is proposing...
Nov 15 2018 // JBA Risk Management (JBA), the UK-based modeling firm, has launched an India crop catastrophe model for the re/insurance market.More commonly known for flood maps and models, JBA collaborated with Chaucer through its...
Nov 15 2018 // North Carolina Agriculture Commissioner Steve Troxler says his agency needs the full $250 million he requested for cash payments to farmers with destroyed crops and dead livestock from Hurricane Florence and another...
Nov 14 2018 // National General Holdings Corp. has agreed to acquire National Farmers Union Property and Casualty Co. from QBE North America. The estimated purchase price is $43 million.National Farmers Union Insurance writes personal...
Nov 13 2018 // U.S. soybean farmer Mike Schlosser does not expect President Donald Trump’s trade war with China, the single biggest headwind to his business, to end any time soon. But he is among many in farm country who expect at...
Nov 8 2018 // The Arkansas State Plant Board (ASPB), a division of the Arkansas Agriculture Department (AAD), announced it has begun the process of reviewing the announced EPA label changes for the herbicide dicamba and will be...
Nov 5 2018 // West Des Moines, Iowa-based Farmers Mutual Hail Insurance Company of Iowa (FMH) is now offering FMH Cyber Risk Protection suite, which includes two new cyber risk products to provide protection and services in the event an...
Nov 5 2018 // A recent Environmental Protection Agency ruling clears the path for Arkansas farmers to use the herbicide dicamba on soybeans and cotton, ending a state-wide ban on the weed killer’s use.The federal agency on Oct. 31...
Nov 5 2018 // A Rhode Island insurance agent who prosecutors say specializes in providing insurance on horses has been arrested on federal charges.The U.S. Attorney’s office in Providence says 57-year-old Randall Levesque, of...
Nov 5 2018 // The Georgia Department of Insurance has estimated insured property losses from Hurricane Michael will reach $250 million, according to a statement by Georgia Insurance Commissioner Ralph Hudgens.In figures released Oct....
Nov 5 2018 // North Carolina legislators approved spending $400 million to quickly help people and communities reeling from flooding left by Hurricane Florence and setting aside another $450 million for upcoming needs.The emergency...
Nov 2 2018 // Berkley Equine & Cattle (BEC) has opened its Animal Mortality Claims Adjusting Office in Lexington, Ky., and appointed Philip O. Bradley as manager.Bradley has more than 25 years of experience adjusting equine, cattle...
Nov 2 2018 // Hurricane Michael left a snowy landscape of ruined white cotton on Georgia’s red clay, destroying a crop and likely bringing hard times to the region’s many small communities built on agriculture.When the storm...
Oct 30 2018 // Typhoon Yutu slammed into northern Philippines on Tuesday and is traveling a path similar to last month’s super storm Mangkhut that killed at least 82 people and damaged about $500 million of farm output in the...
Oct 29 2018 // Wet weather this year has delayed Wisconsin’s grain harvest and caused widespread mold problems in farm fields, according to agriculture experts.The U.S. Department of Agriculture expects Wisconsin farmers to harvest...
Oct 29 2018 // A new study says Florida crops suffered $158 million in damages from Hurricane Michael.The report released Friday by the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences says that almost all of the...
Oct 26 2018 // Officials say the farm that employed a Florida woman fatally struck by lightning has been cited for failing to protect workers. A U.S. Department of Labor news release says Occupational Health and Safety Administration...
Oct 25 2018 // China’s agriculture ministry said on Wednesday it would ban the feeding of kitchen waste to pigs after linking the practice to the majority of the early cases of African swine fever.The statement from the Ministry of...