All the headlines from our Agribusiness Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 7 2015 // A supplier of fast food and supermarket chicken is facing more than $1.4 million in fines this year for worker safety and health violations at Ohio facilities, including several that led a teenage worker to suffer the...
Oct 5 2015 // Three-quarters of South Carolina’s counties have been designated primary natural disaster areas because of persistent drought.The U.S. Department of Agriculture said in September 35 of the state’s 46 counties...
Oct 5 2015 // Farmers Insurance, which began providing insurance and financial services to Connecticut consumers on Jan. 1, 2015, announced the opening of the company’s first territory office in the state.The new office, located...
Oct 2 2015 // In Iowa, one of the largest U.S. egg processors has started to buy foreign supplies for the first time. Elsewhere in the Midwest, a free-range egg producer says it may build automatic car washes to scour vehicles accessing...
Sep 30 2015 // Paul Stueven, chief operating officer and treasurer of Fairmont Farmers Mutual Insurance Co. of Fairmont, Minn., today assumed the chairmanship of the National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies (NAMIC) at the...
Sep 30 2015 // Farmers Insurance reported more than 1,300 claims filed, and an anticipated 1,800 total, with an estimated overall loss of roughly $225 million from two California wildfires that burned nearly 150,000 acres this month in...
Sep 30 2015 // The National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies presented James Bradley (Brad) Fortner, chief operating office of Farmers Protective Mutual Insurance Company in Rogers, Ark., with its Professional Farm Mutual...
Sep 30 2015 // Farmers hit by the drought gripping central Mississippi are now eligible for federal aid.The U.S. Small Business Administration says it’s offering low-interest disaster loans to small businesses and nonprofit...
Sep 29 2015 // State agriculture officials say a Florida man is accused of illegally obtaining more than 4 million pounds of citrus, valued at over half a million dollars, from five different individuals and companies.Agriculture...
Sep 25 2015 // Farmers Insurance, which began providing insurance and financial services to Connecticut consumers on Jan. 1, 2015, announced the opening of the company’s first territory office in the state.The new office, located...
Sep 23 2015 // Safety officials in Minnesota are urging motorists to safely share the road with farm equipment as the harvest gears up. The Minnesota Department of Transportation says drivers need to watch out for slow-moving farm...
Sep 23 2015 // Bayer CropScience LP has reached a $5.6 million settlement over an explosion at its Institute, West Virginia, facility that killed two people in 2008, U.S. authorities said on Monday. The company will spend $4.23 million...
Sep 21 2015 // A pilot insurance program is being offered to West Virginia livestock producers to help manage financial risk. The Rainfall Index Pasture, Rangeland, Forage program’s payments aren’t based on single weather...
Sep 21 2015 // Sierra Specialty has launched a new program that provides general liability & professional liability for agri-services, including agricultural crop spraying; advisors & farm managers; pest & weed applicators...
Sep 18 2015 // Three-quarters of South Carolina’s counties have been designated primary natural disaster areas because of persistent drought. The U.S. Department of Agriculture this month says 35 of the state’s 46 counties...
Sep 16 2015 // XL Catlin’s Specialty Insurance division has appointed leaders for its regional insurance products in its newly-created Americas region.The company named product leaders for accident and health, aviation, crisis...
Sep 10 2015 // In April 2013, a malfunctioning oil well in the countryside north of Oklahoma City caused storage tanks to overflow, sending 42,000 gallons of briny wastewater hurtling over a dike, across a wheat field and into a farm...
Sep 8 2015 // ACE Limited today revealed the leadership teams for the company’s North American business units, including national accounts, middle market, small commercial, high net worth personal lines, wholesale/excess and...
Sep 8 2015 // Feral hogs cost Louisiana farmers more than $74 million in crop losses and other damage in 2013, according to a new study by the LSU AgCenter.AgCenter economist Shaun Tanger, who’s been gathering data from farmers...
Sep 8 2015 // Four more Montana counties have been designated as primary natural disaster areas due to crop losses caused by drought. The U.S. Department of Agriculture added Jefferson, Madison, Teton and Toole counties, bringing to 19...