All the headlines from our Agribusiness Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 1 2016 // Elephant, a direct-to-consumer car insurance company, has partnered with Dairyland, a provider of specialty insurance, to offer coverage for motorcycles, ATVs and similar vehicles.The new partnership with Dairyland, which...
Nov 30 2016 // California is taking its fight against global warming to the farm. The nation’s leading agricultural state is now targeting greenhouse gases produced by dairy cows and other livestock.Despite strong opposition from...
Nov 29 2016 // A new border security approach promoted by the Texas Department of Public Safety has yielded at least one result: a bumper crop of traffic tickets.Traffic stops in Starr and Hidalgo counties on the Texas-Mexico border...
Nov 28 2016 // A team of University of Hawaii scientists has completed a study of nearshore ecosystems across Maui that shows the impact of discharged treated wastewater.The findings were published in the scientific journal PLOS ONE...
Nov 18 2016 // What would happen to an industry that loses one-fourth or more of its employee base?Idaho’s agriculture industry, and particularly its farming sector, might run head-on into that hypothetical question if...
Nov 18 2016 // Among the many crops grown on Glenn Rodes’ family farm in Rockingham County, this summer was one that has not been cultivated in Virginia for decades but that may have a chance at a comeback now, thanks to a slow...
Nov 17 2016 // Rodents, insects and microscopic bacteria: All these hazards can exist in food and where it is stored, and it is up to the Oregon Department of Agriculture to ensure they’re not there.But the department’s Food...
Nov 17 2016 // The Double R Farm in South Carolina has produced abundant crops for four generations of Rabon family farmers here, and despite the double whammy of record rains during the October harvest last year and last month’s...
Nov 14 2016 // More than 86 percent of Arkansas is in some form of drought ahead of a warm, dry winter forecast, meaning there’s little chance of immediate relief.Because of the drought, ranchers are turning to alternate sources of...
Nov 10 2016 // Hurricane Matthew, which swept through parts of the Caribbean and United States, had total economic losses of up to US$15 billion, according to Impact Forecasting, Aon Benfield’s catastrophe model development team.In...
Nov 7 2016 // Agriculture Commissioner Mike Strain is warning Louisiana residents that the state’s wildfire risk remains higher than normal because of dry conditions. The state agriculture department says 19 parishes have enacted...
Nov 3 2016 // Farmers Insurance Exchange will pay $225,000 to settle a race discrimination and retaliation lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in Northern California, the federal agency announced.The suit...
Nov 1 2016 // Louisiana’s cotton and sweet potato harvests have been negatively affected by the flooding rains in August, state agricultural specialists say.Based on reports, Dan Fromme, LSU AgCenter cotton specialist, said in a...
Oct 31 2016 // Six months into a deepening drought, the weather is killing crops, threatening cattle and sinking lakes to their lowest levels in years across much of the South.The very worst conditions – what forecasters call...
Oct 28 2016 // As the last river finally falls below major flood stage near the coast, a rapidly worsening drought is killing crops and causing hard-to-fight wildfires in rugged terrain in western North Carolina and South Carolina.The...
Oct 28 2016 // Western Growers Insurance Services Inc. has named Matt Luis as a sales executive to help expand property/casualty insurance services in California’s Central Valley region. Luis’ experience will be leveraged to...
Oct 27 2016 // The U.S. Department of Agriculture has designated Pointe Coupee Parish as a primary natural disaster area due to damages and losses caused by severe storms and flooding that occurred in August. Farmers and ranchers in...
Oct 24 2016 // South Carolina Department of Agriculture Commissioner Hugh Weathers says crops in some areas of the state may have sustained as much damage from Hurricane Matthew as they did from last year’s historic flooding.The...
Oct 24 2016 // More than two weeks after Hurricane Matthew hit North Carolina, some areas are still flooded and others are beginning the long process of recovery.In North Carolina, the hurricane dumped more than a foot of rain 100 miles...
Oct 21 2016 // Traffic accidents involving farm vehicles in the Midwest would drop by more than 60 percent if state policies required more lighting and reflection on those vehicles, according to a study from the University of Iowa...