All the headlines from our Agribusiness Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 24 2015 // U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., says dairy farmers in New York state and across the country need help contending with falling milk prices.The Democrat says Wednesday that he wants the U.S. Department of Agriculture to...
Apr 23 2015 // As much of the U.S. and the rest of the planet celebrated Earth Day, California politicos and leaders squabbled over how best to deal with the ongoing drought – which may or may not be caused by climate change, depending...
Apr 20 2015 // A hacker who helped break into the computer systems of DirecTV, Farmers Insurance and the Los Angeles Department of Public Works is going to federal prison.Mario Chuisano was given a three-year sentence last week and...
Apr 16 2015 // Missouri’s highest court has upheld limits to the damages property owners can recover in nuisance lawsuits against agricultural operations.The Missouri Supreme Court ruled in favor of a hog farm in a case where...
Apr 16 2015 // The U.S. Agriculture Department has declared two northeast Nevada counties natural disaster areas due to the lingering drought with an emergency order that also makes emergency low-interest loans available to farmers,...
Apr 14 2015 // Lower commodity prices and uncertainties about new federal crop insurance programs are making it tougher for Arkansas row crop farmers to secure operating loans.Tight cash flow has already struck some growers as the...
Apr 14 2015 // A new report on water insecurity says floods and drought amid climate change and a lack of investment in reliable water supplies is weighing on the global economy by tens of billions of dollars a year.“Water is...
Apr 13 2015 // Gov. Jay Nixon has signed bills aimed at boosting Missouri’s dairy and $12.5 billion-a-year agriculture industries through insurance subsidies, scholarships, eased restrictions during parts of the year and other...
Apr 13 2015 // XL Group and Cobalt Underwriting have launched the first Shariah-compliant product to be available through Lloyd’s of London.The cover is an equine product, which responds to named perils, mortality, theft,...
Apr 9 2015 // Impact Forecasting, Aon Benfield’s catastrophe model development team, released the latest edition of its monthly Global Catastrophe Recap report, which reviews the natural disaster events that occurred worldwide...
Apr 8 2015 // A.M. Best has downgraded the financial strength rating to A- (Excellent) from A (Excellent) and the issuer credit rating to “a-“from “a” of Farmers Mutual Hail Insurance Company of Iowa (FMH),...
Apr 7 2015 // We at R Street do a lot of warning that our nation’s misguided crop insurance supports, in combination with the disastrous Renewable Fuel Standard, are distorting land and food markets, wreaking environmental havoc...
Apr 7 2015 // Catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide estimates that insured losses from Extratropical Cyclone Niklas will range between €1.0 billion and €1.9 billion [$1.09 to $2.07 billion], with the majority of losses in...
Apr 2 2015 // California Gov. Jerry Brown ordered officials Wednesday to impose statewide mandatory water restrictions for the first time in history as surveyors found the lowest snow level in the Sierra Nevada snowpack in 65 years of...
Apr 1 2015 // Farmers Mutual Hail Insurance Company of Iowa (FMH) announced its acquisition of Illinois-based John Deere Insurance Company and John Deere Risk Protection Inc. is completeHeadquartered in West Des Moines, Iowa, FMH has...
Mar 23 2015 // Fireman’s Fund Insurance Co. has agreed to pay $44 million to settle allegations under the False Claims Act that it knowingly issued insurance policies that were ineligible under the U.S. Department of...
Mar 23 2015 // A.M. Best has downgraded the financial strength rating to B+ (Good) from B++ (Good) and the issuer credit ratings to “bbb-” from “bbb” of South Carolina Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Co. and Palmetto...
Mar 23 2015 // On the heels of a $325.5 million dollar refund agreement with the state’s largest homeowners insurer, State Farm Lloyds, Texas Department of Insurance Commissioner David Mattax filed a revised settlement with the...
Mar 17 2015 // County fairs across Illinois are reassessing their finances as the state reduces its support in a cost-saving measure.A recent letter from Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner’s administration instructed county fairs to stop...
Mar 13 2015 // State lawmakers are trying to figure out how to enforce the terms of a settlement reached with the nation’s largest tobacco companies.What’s at stake: About $100 million in state revenue every year that pays...