All the headlines from our Agribusiness Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 17 2017 // Italian durum wheat and dairy farmer Attilio Tocchi saw warning signs during the winter of the dramatic drought to come at his holding a mile away from the Tuscan coast.“When it still hadn’t rained at the...
Jul 14 2017 // Tennessee on Thursday imposed restrictions on the use of dicamba, a flagship pesticide for Monsanto Co., becoming the fourth state to take action as problems spread over damage the weed killer causes to crops not...
Jul 10 2017 // Experts say the mild Texas winter hampered this year’s peach crop in parts of the state.The North Texas harvest appears to be bountiful, but growers in some other areas of the state faced challenges, the Fort Worth...
Jul 10 2017 // Farmers and ranchers in 51 Louisiana parishes could be eligible for grants from a $10 million program aimed to help with recovery from last year’s flooding.Agriculture Commissioner Mike Strain’s office says the...
Jul 10 2017 // The Main Street America Group has promoted Dan Gaynor to senior vice president and chief underwriting officer.Gaynor, who has been the super-regional property/casualty insurance company’s vice president of commercial...
Jul 10 2017 // The Michigan Court of Appeals has reversed the ruling of a trial court in a case involving whether a commercial insurer or a personal insurer is responsible for paying no-fault personal injury protection benefits when a...
Jul 5 2017 // An insurance provider whose imprisoned client drove into a crowd at Oklahoma State University’s 2015 homecoming parade will provide $100,000 to the victims.A judge is expected to decide how the money will be divided...
Jun 28 2017 // A.M. Best has revised the outlooks to negative from stable and affirmed the Financial Strength Rating (FSR) of B+ (Good) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Ratings (Long-Term ICR) of “bbb-” of Georgia Farm Bureau...
Jun 27 2017 // The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) designated Evangeline Parish in Louisiana as a primary natural disaster area as the result of losses and damages caused by heavy and excessive rain that occurred from April 4,...
Jun 27 2017 // Malt barley farmers in 44 upstate New York counties are now eligible for crop insurance from the federal government. Malt barley is a necessary ingredient in beer and spirits, and the lack of crop insurance had hindered...
Jun 26 2017 // A U.S. jury has ordered Syngenta AG to pay $217.7 million to more than 7,000 Kansas farmers over its decision to commercialize a genetically modified strain of corn before China approved importing it.The June 23 verdict by...
Jun 26 2017 // Catastrophe risk modeling firm AIR Worldwide announced it has released a Crop Hail Model for Canada to provide crop insurers with a probabilistic view of crop hail risk in Canada.Based on 10,000 simulations of potential...
Jun 26 2017 // Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey is asking for federal assistance for farmers because of crop losses from Tropical Storm Cindy.Ivey sent a letter Friday to U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue asking for a disaster...
Jun 23 2017 // A highly contagious bacterial disease that seriously threatens the U.S. citrus industry has been found for the first time in Alabama.Federal and state plant officials confirm that citrus greening was found in leaf and...
Jun 22 2017 // Six men have been charged in two separate cattle thefts at a Florida pasture, and authorities are trying to find eight missing cows.Polk County Sheriff’s officials say four cows and four calves were stolen in April...
Jun 20 2017 // The Michigan Court of Appeals has reversed the ruling of a trial court in a case involving whether a commercial insurer or a personal insurer is responsible for paying no-fault personal injury protection benefits when a...
Jun 20 2017 // Georgia’s peach crop is suffering much worse than expected after an overly warm winter and a hard freeze in early spring.Agriculture Commissioner Gary Black told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution at the end of May...
Jun 20 2017 // A.M. Best has upgraded the financial strength rating (FSR) to A (Excellent) from A- (Excellent) and the long-term issuer credit rating (Long-Term ICR) to “a” from “a-” of American Agricultural...
Jun 16 2017 // A group of Arkansas farmers have filed a class-action lawsuit against the makers of the herbicide dicamba that they blame for damaging their crops. The lawsuit was filed in federal court in Jonesboro, Arkansas, against...
Jun 14 2017 // Residents in a small western Nebraska town were clearing away tree and building debris Tuesday after a suspected tornado tore through the town but injured no one.The storm struck Bayard around 7:10 p.m. on June 12, tearing...