All the headlines from our Agribusiness Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 23 2014 // Federal officials have designated portions of 11 drought-ridden western and central states as primary natural disaster areas, highlighting the financial strain the lack of rain is likely to bring to farmers in those...
Jan 17 2014 // Cold weather overnight did not harm oranges and other fruit across Florida’s citrus-growing regions, the state’s leading growers association said on Friday.“Came through in good shape. No reports of...
Jan 16 2014 // Negotiations in Congress on the long overdue U.S. farm bill could be completed this week after progress was stalled by a disagreement over a dairy price support program, a senator said on Wednesday.The five-year farm bill,...
Jan 15 2014 // The Property Casualty Insurers Association of America (PCI) has elected Duff Wallace, president and chief executive officer of Southern Farm Bureau Casualty Insurance Co., to its board of governors.Wallace assumed the...
Jan 13 2014 // The federal crop insurance program is expected to expand in 2014, a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) official told farmers at the American Farm Bureau Federation’s annual convention.Tim Hoffmann, director of...
Jan 13 2014 // The U.S. Supreme Court refused to let organic farmers and seed sellers challenge Monsanto Co.’s patents on genetically modified seeds.The justices today left intact a federal appeals court decision that threw out a...
Jan 8 2014 // U.S. crops are escaping record- setting cold weather with little damage, while the arctic blast drove cattle prices to a record as animals struggle to gain weight.The coldest spots in Florida citrus groves were near...
Jan 7 2014 // Orange groves in Florida, the world’s biggest grower after Brazil, escaped cold weather damage overnight as frigid air set records across the Midwest.The coldest spots in Florida citrus groves were near freezing, and...
Jan 7 2014 // Michael G. Toole (Mike) has accepted the position of president of Fort Worth, Texas-based Worth Casualty Co., effective Jan. 1, 2014, the company announced.Worth Casualty Co. and its affiliated companies –...
Jan 6 2014 // A report commissioned by the Environmental Working Group (EWG) says that the federal crop insurance program over-compensated Corn Belt farmers by $7.8 billion during the 2012 drought. Insurance payouts that year totaled...
Jan 3 2014 // A searing heat wave is baking central and northern Australia, piling more misery on drought-hit cattle farmers who have been slaughtering livestock as Australia sweltered through the hottest year on record in...
Dec 27 2013 // Farmer Woods Group hired agent Mike Ginzl in the Phoneix, Ariz. Office. Ginzl specializes in commercial insurance for the technology, landscape and manufacturing industries. Ginzl has worked in insurance for more than 15...
Dec 27 2013 // New food safety rules proposed by the federal government could prove cumbersome and costly for Georgia farmers, the state’s agriculture commissioner said.Gary Black, a Republican, was among many who asked the U.S....
Dec 27 2013 // U.S. poultry producers have dramatically reduced the presence of harmful bacteria in poultry meat, a trade group said on Friday in defending the food safety record of the industry.“The numbers tell us we’re...
Dec 24 2013 // Farmers in northwest Ohio who are upset with a plan being worked out to control flooding along a river met with an Ohio congressman to voice their concerns.The Courier newspaper in Findlay reports that about 120 people met...
Dec 24 2013 // Two New Mexico cities are preparing to begin operating public charging stations for electric vehicles.Last week, Gallup opened a Tesla Motors supercharger station and Farmington is scheduled to open one next month, The...
Dec 20 2013 // Food safety rules the U.S. planned to implement this year are being delayed by months because the requirements were too complex for some farmers, regulators said.Two core rules of the Food Safety Modernization Act of 2011...
Dec 19 2013 // Los Angeles-based Farmers Insurance Exchange filed a lawsuit in the Superior Court of California against two radiological corporations and their owners for allegedly submitting false documentation to get paid for services...
Dec 12 2013 // A weeklong blast of sub-freezing temperatures across California has damaged the state’s $2 billion citrus crop, but it will take several weeks before the extent of the loss is quantified, agricultural industry...
Dec 12 2013 // Most jurisdictions have held that an insurance company with the primary policy owes a duty of good faith and fair dealing to the insurance company with the excess policy requiring a settlement of claims within the primary...