All the headlines from our Agribusiness Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 26 2013 // Feral hogs in Louisiana are rooting up levees on Jefferson Parish’s west bank, causing damage that could pose a threat to flood protection, officials say.The west bank levee board has enlisted the help of the U.S....
Nov 25 2013 // MidAtlantic Farm Credit, an agricultural lending cooperative, recently hired Rachel Melvin as a crop insurance specialist. Melvin will be based out of the organization’s office in Denton, Maryland.In her new role,...
Nov 21 2013 // House and Senate negotiators adjourned talks on a new agricultural bill until after a congressional recess, increasing the chances of a lapse in programs that could double the price of milk next year.“I’m...
Nov 20 2013 // The Oregon Court of Appeals has rejected a constitutional challenge to Oregon’s Right to Farm law, but parties to the case say the question isn’t resolved.The Capital Press agricultural publication reported the...
Nov 20 2013 // The insurance company that paid $2.4 million to cover losses from a wind farm fire in Hawaii is suing manufacturers that built parts of its battery system.The Honolulu Star-Advertiser reported Certain Underwriters at...
Nov 19 2013 // After pioneering the cultivation of corn thousands of years ago, Mexico must overcome the weight of history to give the go-ahead to allow genetically modified strains into its fields.Religion, culture and science are...
Nov 18 2013 // Indiana Farm Bureau Insurance announced that Joseph A. Martin, the company’s current chief operating officer (COO) and senior vice president, marketing, has been selected after a nationwide search to serve as its...
Nov 18 2013 // State Specialists are often an independent agent’s most reliable and consistent market. These companies are focused on a specific geographic area, understand it and consistently strive to serve it.The Demotech...
Nov 18 2013 // The state of Texas and Farmers Insurance want to settle decade-old claims of overcharging and underserving customers for $117.5 million, which would be one of the largest insurance settlements in state history but less...
Nov 18 2013 // The main difference between livestock, or equine, mortality insurance and human life insurance is that a livestock owner, subject to certain conditions, may sometimes euthanize the animal and still collect policy proceeds,...
Nov 15 2013 // Farmers in 20 Michigan counties that had damage from severe hail storms earlier this year are eligible for emergency loans. U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow of Michigan announced the support Wednesday involving loans from the...
Nov 14 2013 // Darlene Price Wells has been named executive vice president and general manager of the Virginia Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance and CEO of Countryway Insurance, a wholly owned subsidiary of Virginia Farm Bureau Mutual...
Nov 14 2013 // Capital Insurance Group (CIG), a regional property and casualty insurer serving the Western U.S., has released a comprehensive employment practices liability Insurance (EPLI) product for organizations with up to 250...
Nov 12 2013 // The chances of the U.S. Congress passing a five-year farm bill by year’s end are a little better than 50/50 given the gridlock over food stamps for the poor, a top farm policy expert said on Monday.“There is a...
Nov 11 2013 // A South Dakota farmer is charged in federal court with three counts of filing false crop insurance claims.Fifty-two-year-old Nicholas Berbos has pleaded not guilty to the charges. Trial is scheduled May 13 in Aberdeen. The...
Nov 11 2013 // President Barack Obama has signed a disaster declaration allowing 14 South Dakota counties and two American Indian reservations to get federal financial help to recover from the early October blizzard that closed roads,...
Nov 11 2013 // An apple a day may not keep the doctor away, but it sure lines the pockets of Washington’s apple growers.Apples were worth more than $2 billion to Washington farmers in 2012, the first crop in state history to cross...
Nov 7 2013 // Catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide has estimated that insured losses from Windstorm Christian (known as St. Jude in the UK) will range between €1.5 billion €2.3 billion [$2 to $3 billion], with the majority of...
Nov 6 2013 // West Virginia Department of Agriculture issued an insurance reminder for the state’s fruit producers, citing USDA Risk Management Agency’s announcement that the final date for West Virginia apple and peach...
Nov 5 2013 // CHS Insurance Services LLC is the new name for agribusiness insurance broker Ag States Group, which provides a full line of property/casualty insurance, surety bond products, group benefits, loss control and on-site safety...