All the headlines from our Agribusiness Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 10 2013 // The Mississippi Law Enforcement Officers Training Academy in Pearl isn’t the most aesthetically appealing place to train officers these days, its director, Pat Cronin, concedes.The March 18 hailstorms that struck...
May 10 2013 // In a concession to Southern lawmakers, the new U.S. farm law would set sharply higher support prices for rice and peanut crops under a draft prepared for a Senate Agriculture Committee vote next week and released on...
May 8 2013 // The Virginia Farm Bureau has launched a website for reporting farm accidents.The site, FarmAccidentReport.com, allows anyone to report accidents they witness on Virginia farms. Jimmy Maass is the Farm Bureau’s safety...
May 7 2013 // Congress will begin writing a new, $500 billion U.S. farm law next week, the head of the Senate Agriculture Committee said on Tuesday, even as calls mounted for deeper cuts in farm subsidies and food stamp spending.The...
May 3 2013 // Bermuda-based Endurance Specialty Holdings Ltd. reported net income available to common shareholders of $92.1 million and $2.13 per diluted common share for the first quarter of 2013, compared to net income of $74.4...
May 2 2013 // U.S. farmers have collected a record $17 billion in crop insurance payments on drought-hit 2012 crops but the system could have spent half as much and still saved growers from ruinous losses, an insurance specialist said...
May 1 2013 // Dangerous antibiotic-resistant bacteria has been found in ground turkey on U.S. grocery shelves across a variety of brands and stores located in 21 states, according to a report by a consumer watchdog organization.Of the...
May 1 2013 // The European Union will ban three of the world’s most widely-used pesticides for two years because of fears they are linked to a plunge in the population of bees critical to the production of crops.The executive...
Apr 30 2013 // The LSU AgCenter says high prices and record yields for corn and soybeans drove Louisiana’s agricultural economy to a record high of $11.4 billion last year. That’s about 6.5 percent more than the 2011 total of...
Apr 26 2013 // President Barack Obama’s administration on Wednesday notified Congress it will start free-trade talks with Japan, bringing the world’s third-largest economy into U.S.-led negotiations on a regional free-trade...
Apr 25 2013 // An Illinois agent has received an award from the Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of America (IIABA or Big ‘I’) for his work on behalf of crop insurance agents.Brian McSherry of Illinois is the 2012...
Apr 24 2013 // ACE Limited reported net income for the quarter ended March 31, 2013 of $2.77 per share – $953 million – compared with $2.84 per share -$973 million- for the same quarter last year. Operating income was $2.17...
Apr 19 2013 // Los Angeles-based Farmers Insurance Group is continuing its integration effort with 21st Century Insurance, an auto insurance company it acquired from American International Group for approximately $1.9 billion in...
Apr 19 2013 // Torrential downpours across a broad swath of the U.S. Midwest this week are easing the worst drought in more than 50 years, flooding streams, snarling river transportation, stalling corn plantings – and changing the...
Apr 19 2013 // Despite being located within a short walk of a nursing home, school and residential buildings, West Fertilizer Co. in central Texas had no blast walls and had filed no contingency plan to the Environmental Protection...
Apr 16 2013 // A measure protecting limiting the liability for agritourism operators in Oklahoma has been signed into law by Gov. Mary Fallin, according to the House of Representatives.State Rep. Scott Biggs, R-Chickasha and Sen. Ron...
Apr 16 2013 // The worst-ever Rio Grande drought is posing plenty of challenges this season for chile growers in New Mexico.The Las Cruces Sun-News reported that one challenge is groundwater that’s applied to crops in the absence...
Apr 12 2013 // The ACE Group has formed ACE Agribusiness, an agriculture property and casualty insurance business. ACE Agribusiness is comprised of Penn Millers Insurance Co., acquired by ACE in 2011, and the Farm and Ranch division of...
Apr 11 2013 // A.M. Best Co. said Wednesday it has downgraded the financial strength rating of Virginia Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Co. in Richmond, Va., and its subsidiaries to B++ (Good) from A- (Excellent).Additionally, Oldwick,...
Apr 10 2013 // President Barack Obama proposed reducing the most expensive part of the farm safety net by cutting the subsidy to farmers for buying crop insurance.At present, the government pays 62 cents of every $1 of insurance premium....