All the headlines from our Agribusiness Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 2 2019 // MS Amlin announced an upgrade of of a digital trading solution to upgrade its “Countrywise insurance” service, which provides agricultural motor insurance for brokers and their clients in Great Britain and...
May 2 2019 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. announced the acquisition of Australian insurance broker AgriRisk Services Pty Ltd.Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Headquartered in North Sydney, New South Wales with offices in...
May 1 2019 // Atlas General Insurance Services has collaborated with Bascule Underwriting, specialists in equine insurance, to provide an exclusive workers compensation product for horse farm owners.The program will be administered by...
Apr 30 2019 // The Missouri River used to be out of control. “It cuts corners, runs around at nights, fills itself with snags and traveling sandbars, lunches on levees, and swallows islands and small villages for dessert,” is...
Apr 29 2019 // A bipartisan group of Florida Cabinet members and state lawmakers is demanding that U.S. lawmakers pass a disaster-relief package for Hurricane Michael victims.Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis, Attorney General...
Apr 24 2019 // U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin will travel to Beijing for trade talks beginning on April 30, the White House said in a statement on Tuesday.It said Chinese Vice Premier...
Apr 23 2019 // Most Chinese hog farms are choosing not to replenish herds as a deadly swine virus continues to spread across the world’s top pork market.More than 80 percent of farms are deciding not to restock, according to...
Apr 22 2019 // Producers Ag Insurance Group Inc. has agreed to acquire Leawood, Kan.-based managing general agent AmTrust Agriculture Insurance Services.The deal, which is subject to regulatory approvals, is expected to close by May 1....
Apr 18 2019 // A wave of satellites set to orbit the Earth will be able to pinpoint producers of greenhouse gases, right down to an individual leak at an oil rig.More than a dozen governments and companies have or are planning to launch...
Apr 16 2019 // Georgia’s governor and other state leaders are blasting Congress over its failure to approve a package of disaster relief measures.The $14 billion aid package is desperately needed by farmers and others who suffered...
Apr 16 2019 // When surprise hailstorms hit the 6,000 acres Trevor Scherman plants each year with peas, wheat, canola and lentils, his first move isn’t to his truck to assess the damage. These days, it’s to his iPad.Nine...
Apr 15 2019 // The government’s latest Census of Agriculture for Kansas shows the number of farms in the state has dropped 5% from the count taken five years earlier.The National Agricultural Statistics Service reported Thursday...
Apr 12 2019 // A bill that would expand protections for Nebraska farmers against public nuisance lawsuits has advanced in the Legislature despite objections that it could infringe on neighbors’ property rights.Lawmakers gave the...
Apr 11 2019 // A French appeals court ruled on Thursday that Bayer’s Monsanto business was liable for the health problems of a farmer who had inhaled a weedkiller product.The ruling in favor of farmer Paul Francois was announced in...
Apr 11 2019 // Farmers can now for the first time insure their produce against price volatility as easily as insuring their homes, with a global platform based on hundreds of niche commodity indexes, underwritten by a Lloyd’s of...
Apr 9 2019 // In a commentary on the recent Midwest flooding, AM Best said the states hit hardest by these floods — such as Missouri, Iowa, Kansas and South Dakota — generally have National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) insured...
Apr 7 2019 // Republican lawmakers in Kansas pressed ahead with allowing the state Farm Bureau to offer health coverage to members that doesn’t satisfy the Affordable Care Act, a state-level effort to circumvent an Obama-era law...
Apr 2 2019 // The Black Hawk military helicopter flew over Iowa, giving a senior U.S. agriculture official and U.S. senator an eyeful of the flood damage below, where yellow corn from ruptured metal silos spilled out into the muddy...
Apr 1 2019 // At least 1 million acres (405,000 hectares) of U.S. farmland were flooded after the “bomb cyclone” storm left wide swaths of nine major grain producing states under water this month, satellite data analyzed by...
Apr 1 2019 // The federal flood insurance program has a knack for inspiring ideas from reformers across the political spectrum on how to improve government.If some of today’s reformers get their way, flood insurance will become a...