All the headlines from our Agribusiness Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 23 2013 // Farmers in Gallatin County, Mont. are eligible for federal disaster assistance after an Aug. 1 hailstorm caused up to $50 million in crop losses.The U.S. Department of Agriculture declared the county a disaster area on...
Aug 21 2013 // The global charity Oxfam has announced the launch of a flood insurance program for poor and vulnerable people in the river basin areas of the Sirajganj district of Bangladesh.“Initiated by Oxfam, the project is...
Aug 15 2013 // Montana Gov. Steve Bullock has requested a national disaster designation for agriculture damage from a hail storm in Gallatin County this month. Bullock sent the request to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack Tuesday, saying...
Aug 8 2013 // International Risk Management Institute Inc. has entered into an agreement with the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of California to acquire the Agribusiness and Farm Insurance Specialist certification...
Aug 8 2013 // AIR Worldwide reported that it has updated its Multiple Peril Crop Insurance (MPCI) Models for the United States and China. “These are weather-based models that estimate underwriting gains and losses based on crop...
Aug 6 2013 // Some state agencies dealing with the lingering Texas drought have invited people to share their original photos online.The coalition on Monday launched an interactive public awareness campaign on how the drought has...
Aug 6 2013 // Farmers around Powell, Wyo. say hail from a violent storm last week damaged or destroyed barley and other crops.The storm brought hail up to a half-inch in diameter, about a half inch of rain and 50 mph winds. It hit just...
Aug 6 2013 // For a country that markets itself to the world with the slogan “100 percent Pure”, New Zealand’s environmental credentials are not as impeccable as many would think.The majority of its rivers are too...
Aug 5 2013 // A prominent North Dakota potato farmer, businessman and philanthropist who’s among a group of people accused in an alleged price-fixing scheme is suing his insurance company for failing to cover his defense costs.Ron...
Jul 31 2013 // Farmers Insurance has unveiled a new corporate logo as part of the company’s next “evolutionary step,” the Los Angeles-based carrier announced on Wednesday.New York City based-Lippincott is the creative...
Jul 31 2013 // Sustained high prices for corn, soybeans and wheat combined with record U.S. crop-insurance payouts are encouraging farmers to plow fragile lands and put ecosystems at risk, an environmental advocacy group said.Northern...
Jul 31 2013 // The one sure-fire way to avoid dying in a grain bin is to stay out.That’s where Scott Haugan and some high-tech wizardry come in. The Des Moines Register reports Haugan, who runs the Howgan grain storage technology...
Jul 30 2013 // The U.S. Agriculture Department paid out $32 million in soil conservation payments and crop insurance aid to dead farmers from 2008 to 2012, congressional auditors said on Monday, calling for stricter rules to prevent...
Jul 26 2013 // Federal authorities are investigating safety procedures at a northern Colorado farm after nine workers were struck by lightning. Two of the workers in the organic fields in Wellington were critically injured when the...
Jul 25 2013 // The Republican-controlled U.S. House will try to cut billions of dollars from the food stamp program before negotiating an overall farm bill with the Senate, the House majority leader said on Thursday two months before the...
Jul 24 2013 // Two senators are pushing the Federal Emergency Management Agency to detail its efforts to mitigate wildfires.Colorado Democrat Michael Bennet and Idaho Republican Mike Crapo (KRAY’-poh) also want FEMA to identify...
Jul 24 2013 // Japan joined U.S.-led trade talks on Tuesday, adding its weight to a pact that covers two-fifths of the world economy but raising further doubt over whether negotiators can prise open sensitive sectors such as farm goods...
Jul 23 2013 // Catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide has released its analysis of the damages suffered by rural communities in northwest China’s Gansu province from the “devastating earthquake on July 21 at 23:45:56 UTC...
Jul 23 2013 // Last year’s drought has contributed to confusion over crop insurance rules for some Upper Midwest farmers who couldn’t get a crop in the ground this past spring due to the opposite weather extreme – too...
Jul 22 2013 // Federal agriculture officials have declared Storey County a primary natural disaster area due to drought, making farmers and ranchers in four Nevada counties eligible for emergency loans to bolster their operations.Farm...