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#1 Missouri Farmer Who Stars in Reality TV Series Pleads Guilty to Crop Insurance Fraud

Nov 7 2024 // A Missouri farmer who appears in a reality TV show about his family’s farming operation pleaded guilty this week to a multi-million dollar fraud scheme involving federal crop insurance benefits.Steve A. McBee, 52,...

#2 Mississippi River Dries Up Again at Worst Time for US Farmers

Oct 25 2024 // The Mississippi River is suffering from low waters for the third straight autumn, a crucial time of year when American farmers rely on the route to deliver their crops to the world.Months of limited rainfall — with few...

#3 Farm Bill Becomes Lightning Rod in Wisconsin Senate Race

Oct 30 2024 // MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Republican Senate candidate Eric Hovde has repeatedly defended his self-professed lack of knowledge about the U.S. farm bill in the campaign’s closing days, after first saying in a...

#4 Company Vows to Sue Over Damages After New Mexico Police Destroy Cannabis Crops

Nov 7 2024 // State police have destroyed tens of thousands of pounds of marijuana plants at greenhouses in northwestern New Mexico, marking what regulators say is the largest seizure and destruction of cannabis in New Mexico since new...

#5 Texas Pecan Farmers Fight to Save Water Supply

Nov 1 2024 // FORT STOCKTON — Zachary Swick plucked a pecan from one of the 78,000 trees at a sprawling West Texas farm — a rare sight in the desert known for oil rigs and pump jacks. He peeled away the pecan’s layers, leaving...

#6 Missouri Farm Cooperative Fined $241K for Lacking Proper Equipment

Oct 30 2024 // A Missouri grain cooperative could have prevented an employee’s fatal engulfment in a storage bin in May 2024 had it followed federal workplace safety requirements, the U.S. Department of Labor determined.Responding...

#7 Washington Farm Labor Contractor Fined $140K for Withholding Info From Workers

Nov 1 2024 // A Pasco farm labor contractor faces nearly $140,000 in fines for violations uncovered during a Washington State Department of Labor & Industries investigation that include withholding information from worker.According...

#8 Washington Farm Labor Contractor Fined $140K for Withholding Info From Workers

Nov 18 2024 // A Pasco farm labor contractor faces nearly $140,000 in fines for violations uncovered during a Washington State Department of Labor & Industries investigation that include withholding information from worker.According...

#9 New ‘Revolution’ in Firefighting, Crop Protection: Unmanned Helicopters?

Nov 22 2024 // When Hector Xu was learning to fly a helicopter in college, he recalled having a few “nasty experiences” while trying to navigate at night.The heart-stopping flights led to his research of unmanned aircraft...

#10 Specialist Risk Group Acquires Bloodstock and Livestock Specialist Broker Stonehatch

Oct 30 2024 // Specialist Risk Group (SRG), the London-based insurance intermediary, announced the acquisition of Stonehatch, a leading specialist bloodstock and livestock insurance broker.Financial details of the transaction were not...

#11 AM Best Withdraws Credit Rating of Farmers Mutual Insurance Co. of Michigan

Nov 4 2024 // AM Best has revised the outlook to negative from stable for the Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating (Long-Term ICR) and affirmed the Financial Strength Rating (FSR) of C++ (Marginal) and the Long-Term ICR of ‘b+’...