Latest Agribusiness Headlines
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Missouri Bill Criminalizes Undercover Videos at Farms
Apr 19 2012 // The Missouri House has endorsed legislation that would make it a crime for undercover activists to produce videos portraying poor conditions at livestock farms or other agricultural facilities. The legislation given...
6 of 13 E. coli Cases in Missouri Linked to Single Farm
Apr 18 2012 // Six of Missouri’s 13 recent confirmed cases of E. coli have been linked to the consumption of unpasteurized milk or raw dairy products from a farm in Howard County although the source of the infection has not been...
Drought Brings Outbreak of Horse Disease in Louisiana, Arkansas
Apr 18 2012 // Agriculture officials in Arkansas and Louisiana have warned veterinarians to watch for signs of a potentially fatal horse disease if there’s another drought this year. The disease is often called pigeon fever because...
East Insurance Employment: Hiring Is ‘Slightly Elevated’ in 2012
Apr 16 2012 // The insurance employment market in the East and Northeast regions — as in most other parts of the country — can be summed up the following way: hiring is “slightly elevated” compared to last year, but there...
Cap on Subsidy of Crop Insurance Premiums Would Save $1 Billion: GAO
Apr 13 2012 // A cap on crop insurance premium subsidies could save the federal government up to $1 billion a year, according to a government report. If a limit of $40,000 had been applied to individual farmers’ crop insurance...
Farmers Insurance Asks for Rate Hike in Louisiana
Apr 12 2012 // Farmers Insurance Exchange has asked Louisiana regulators for an average 39 percent statewide increase for its 25,500 homeowner policyholders. The state insurance department is examining the request, which was filed last...
Michigan’s Davenport University Introducing Insurance Education Specialty
Apr 11 2012 // Davenport University in Michigan announced it is introducing a new risk management and insurance specialty within its Bachelor of Business Administration in Management program beginning in the fall of 2012. Farmers...
Mississippi Residents Still Recovering from 2011 Floods As New Season Approaches
Apr 9 2012 // The levees in Tunica, Mississippi, held. But that doesn’t mean the record Mississippi River flood of 2011 didn’t leave destruction in its wake. As hundreds of Mississippi residents struggle to get back into...
U.S. Summer Forecast: El Nino Adverse Weather May Return
Apr 5 2012 // The U.S. Climate Prediction Center raised the prospect that El Nino conditions could return after the Northern Hemisphere summer, causing adverse weather that could potentially disrupt the harvest of vital crops such as...
Endurance’s Chief Actuary Leaving to Take University Post in Philly
Apr 5 2012 // Endurance Specialty Holdings said Michael Angelina, its chief risk officer and chief actuary, will be leaving the company to take a university post in Philadelphia. Michael Angelina Angelina will assume the position of...
Corps Seeks Dismissal of Missouri Breached Levee Lawsuit
Apr 2 2012 // The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is seeking dismissal of a lawsuit brought on behalf of more than 140 southeast Missouri farmers over damage caused by last year’s intentional breach of the Birds Point levee at the...
Settlement Reached In Web Libel Lawsuit
Mar 30 2012 // A Longmont, Colo. woman has taken down several critical web postings to settle a libel lawsuit. The lawsuit was filed by recycOil, a grease and oil recycling company. According to the Boulder Daily Camera, Jennifer Hronkin...
Study: Agriculture Worth $10.7B in Louisiana
Mar 28 2012 // The LSU AgCenter says agriculture was worth $10.7 billion to Louisiana’s economy last year. AgCenter economist John Westra says the 7 percent gain from 2010 represents the first $10 billion year since 2007. Last year...
Judge Orders Feds to Begin Proceedings to Remove Antibiotics in Animal Feed
Mar 23 2012 // A federal judge on Thursday ordered U.S. regulators to start proceedings to withdraw approval for the use of common antibiotics in animal feed, citing concerns that overuse is endangering human health by creating...
U.S. Intelligence Report Sees Global Water Conflict Risks Rising
Mar 23 2012 // Fresh water supplies are unlikely to keep up with global demand by 2040, increasing political instability, hobbling economic growth and endangering world food markets, according to a U.S. intelligence assessment released...
Texas’ 2011 Drought Costliest in State History, Researchers Say
Mar 22 2012 // Texas agriculture producers lost $7.62 billion to the state’s 2011 drought, which experts said makes it the costliest drought in the state’s history and possibly the most expensive drought ever suffered by any...
House Plan Would Cut Crop Insurance Cost
Mar 20 2012 // U.S. farm and crop insurance subsidies would be cut by $30 billion over 10 years under a proposal made by the House of Representatives Budget Committee chairman on Tuesday, far larger reductions than agricultural-state...
La Niña to Fade but South Should Expect Dry Conditions
Mar 19 2012 // The La Niña weather pattern blamed for a devastating drought in Texas and a bad dry spell in South America should be gone by the end of April, but its impact will persist in large swaths of the southern United States. The...
Farmers Names Pratt Head of Distribution for California
Mar 9 2012 // Larry Pratt, Farmers Insurance vice president of sales, was appointed as head of distribution for California for Los Angeles-based Farmers. Pratt started with Farmers in June 1990 in Vancouver, Wash. Prior to being...
La Nina to Fade But South Should Expect Dry Conditions
Mar 8 2012 // The La Nina weather pattern blamed for a devastating drought in Texas and a bad dry spell in South America should be gone by the end of April, but its impact will persist in large swathes of the southern United States...
