All the headlines from our Agribusiness Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 20 2014 // U.S. farmers and bankers have almost a year to get ready for major changes in 2015 as crop insurance rather than direct cash payments to producers becomes the centerpiece of farm policy under the five-year farm bill signed...
Feb 14 2014 // Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy proposed legislation Tuesday clarifying that domesticated horses cannot be considered vicious, responding to a legal claim over a horse at a Milford farm in Connecticut that threatens a...
Feb 14 2014 // U.S. President Barack Obama is offering millions of dollars in aid and other assistance to California farmers, ranchers and communities beset by one of the worst droughts in the state’s history.The federal help will...
Feb 10 2014 // Insurance claims for crop damage due to hail in Montana exceeded $14 million in 2013.The Montana Department of Agriculture told the Great Falls Tribune that’s the most expensive year in the 98-year-history of the...
Feb 5 2014 // Georgia would take the first steps to regulating the use of drones through legislation under consideration in the General Assembly.Rep. Harry Geisinger, R-Roswell, has sponsored a bill that would provide for the lawful use...
Feb 4 2014 // The Senate passed and sent to President Barack Obama a measure that sets U.S. agricultural policy for five years, ending the toughest legislative battle on renewal of the farm bill in almost two decades with cuts to crop...
Feb 4 2014 // Small farms have been off-limits to the federal agency that oversees workplace safety for decades. But lawmakers in North Dakota and other states have grown sufficiently concerned that they’re warning the Obama...
Feb 4 2014 // Crop insurers successfully lobbied to keep several proposals out of the farm bill set to pass the U.S. Congress today — such as a requirement that would have forced farmer-lawmakers to disclose benefits they...
Feb 3 2014 // Long-delayed farm legislation easily cleared a procedural hurdle on Monday in the U.S. Senate, with final passage of the nearly $1 trillion bill expected as early as Tuesday.The House of Representatives last week...
Feb 1 2014 // Amid severe drought conditions, California officials announced they won’t send any water from the state’s vast reservoir system to local agencies beginning this spring, an unprecedented move that affects...
Jan 30 2014 // An El Nino weather pattern, which can parch Australia and parts of Asia while bringing rains to South America, may occur in the coming months as the Pacific Ocean warms, according to Australia’s Bureau of...
Jan 29 2014 // The U.S. House passed and sent the Senate a much-delayed bill to set agricultural policy for five years, as a coalition of rural Republicans and urban Democrats overcame objections about farm subsidies and food-stamp...
Jan 29 2014 // The Idaho Supreme Court says a lien on cattle feed only lasts as long as the feed does, and doesn’t apply to the animals that consume the food.The ruling reversed a lower court’s decision in a lawsuit between...
Jan 29 2014 // Capital Insurance Group named Bryan Stanwood regional field executive for the Northwest region. Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Utah have been combined to form the Northwest Region for CIG, with Stanwood overseeing...
Jan 29 2014 // Editor’s Note: The House of Representatives passed the bill this morning. For the update, read here.House and Senate negotiators on Monday reached a bipartisan agreement on the long-overdue U.S. farm bill that ends a...
Jan 28 2014 // Editor’s Note: The House of Representatives passed the bill this morning. For the update, read here.Deep cuts in U.S. food-stamp spending sought by House Republicans were averted in a tentative agreement on a...
Jan 28 2014 // Capital Insurance Group named Jeff Batozech as the regional field executive of Northern California.CIG has combined its North Coast, Bay Area and Sacramento regions into the newly formed Northern California Region and...
Jan 27 2014 // This week could see important Senate votes on a bill on the federal flood insurance program that is linked with an agent and broker licensing measure, as well House approval of a farm bill that includes crop insurance and...
Jan 27 2014 // Jerry Brown California Gov. Jerry Brown in mid-January proclaimed a state of emergency and directed state officials to take all necessary actions to prepare for drought conditions.“We can’t make it rain, but we...
Jan 24 2014 // A south Alabama jury has decided a farm owner should pay a former worker $4 million in damages for an on-the-job accident that left the man with skinned genitals. AL.com reported that Gerald Lymon was holding onto the boom...