All the headlines from our Agribusiness Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 1 2017 // For more than two decades, Deidra Marler and her family piled into pickup trucks after Thanksgiving lunch and headed over to the K&K Evergreen Farm to pick out their annual Christmas tree.The Beaumont Enterprise...
Nov 30 2017 // The hurricane season is officially over, but it didn’t go by without leaving a major mark on Florida and its insurance industry. Hurricane Irma, a name most in the state won’t soon forget, first hit the Florida...
Nov 29 2017 // S&P Global Ratings has placed its ‘B+’ financial strength ratings for Hochheim Prairie Farm Mutual Insurance Assoc. (HPFMIA) and its subsidiary, Hochheim Prairie Casualty Insurance Co. (HPCIC; collectively...
Nov 20 2017 // Hurricane Harvey caused more than $200 million in crop and livestock losses, according to Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service. Hurricane losses by agricultural commodity include: livestock – $93 million; cotton...
Nov 20 2017 // Researchers with the University of Arizona say agricultural businesses contribute more than $23 billion in sales to the state’s economy.A report released in early November by the university’s Cooperative...
Nov 17 2017 // Economical Insurance announced the creation of a new organizational structure, with three market-facing regions.The restructuring is designed to improve profits, strengthen relationships with broker partners, capture more...
Nov 17 2017 // Crop insurance was once a sector full of smaller players, but a mergers-and-acquisitions (M&A)-driven push for efficiency and scale has left it dominated by fewer and larger carriers, and analysts at Conning predict a...
Nov 16 2017 // The federal government has designated several Louisiana parishes disaster areas due to damages caused by flooding from Hurricane Harvey.Agriculture and Forestry Commissioner Mike Strain says the U.S. Department of...
Nov 14 2017 // The earthen dam on the outskirts of Georgetown in Texas’ Williamson County certainly does not look flimsy.The Austin American-Statesman reports at 35 feet high and nearly a third of a mile long, it has done a...
Nov 13 2017 // U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited a Nebraska grain-handling cooperative for failing to protect workers from grain bin entrapment and engulfment hazards. The...
Nov 13 2017 // Researchers with the University of Arizona say agricultural businesses contribute more than $23 billion in sales to the state’s economy.A report released this week by the university’s Cooperative...
Nov 9 2017 // Global insurance broker Hub International Limited (Hub) has agreed to acquire the assets of the crop insurance broker business of Wells Fargo Insurance.Terms of the agreement to buy the business, known as Wells Fargo Crop...
Nov 9 2017 // In early 2016, agribusiness giant Monsanto faced a decision that would prove pivotal in what since has become a sprawling herbicide crisis, with millions of acres of crops damaged.Monsanto had readied new genetically...
Nov 8 2017 // Hurricane Harvey caused more than $200 million in crop and livestock losses, according to Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service.Hurricane losses by agricultural commodity include: livestock – $93 million; cotton...
Nov 7 2017 // A powerful typhoon that rocked Vietnam has killed at least 44 people, left more than a dozen missing and caused extensive damage to the country’s south-central region ahead of a summit that will draw leaders from...
Nov 6 2017 // Fire Starter?“We still don’t know whether the fires caused pole or line damage or the poles caused the fires. They may never sort it out.” — Michael Picker, chairman of the California Public...
Nov 6 2017 // Crop insurer, Farmers Mutual Hail Insurance Co. of Iowa (FMH), announced that James A. Brost, retiring senior vice president with Holborn Corp., will join the FMH board of directors on Jan. 1, 2018.Brost began his...
Nov 3 2017 // A farm family is suing the Dakota Access pipeline company alleging it failed to restore farmland it damaged during construction as promised. Slack Family Properties accuses the pipeline company of breach of contract,...
Nov 1 2017 // Authorities are blaming a manure runoff from a dairy farm for killing about 60,000 fish in eastern Iowa. The farm is situated about three miles east of New Vienna. The fish kill was reported Oct. 9 after fish carcasses...
Oct 31 2017 // Farmers Insurance has filed a lawsuit in California against a pair of former employees and the Automobile Club of Michigan alleging the theft of trade secrets.The suit alleges violations of the California Trade Secrets...