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5 Questions to Ask Customers Considering a Family Farm Business
Feb 22 2021 // According to a March 2020 article by the Agricultural Marketing Resource Center, agritourism operations in the U.S. generated more than $700 million in sales in 2012. People are taking their family farms and (alongside...
Protecting Seasonal Ag Workers with a Non-Routine Work Program
Feb 22 2021 // During a routine trip to dump grain into a dump pit, a driver became concerned about the amount of dust rising from the pit. To investigate, he removed both the primary and secondary pit grates — a task that was not...
Caribbean Agricultural Workers Keep Fighting for Compensation from Pesticide Exposure
Feb 19 2021 // SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – Agricultural workers who have long sought compensation for contamination from a pesticide banned in France but used in the country’s Caribbean islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe have...
Texas Ag Industry, Food Supply at Risk from Severe Weather, Official Says
Feb 17 2021 // Farmers and ranchers across Texas are seeing devastating effects from the cold weather on livestock, feed and agriculture products, Texas’ top agriculture official says. In a media release, Texas Agriculture...
Citrus Crop Losses Expected in Texas After Deep Freeze
Feb 16 2021 // The historic cold snap that has frozen Texas this week with brutal winter weather and brought snow all the way to beaches along the Gulf of Mexico is also bringing headaches for citrus growers at the southern tip of the...
Man Who Broke Ankle on Obstacle Course on Michigan Farm Wins Appeal
Feb 16 2021 // A man who broke an ankle on an obstacle course at a pumpkin patch will get his foot inside a courthouse again. A judge wrongly dismissed Tarek Hamade’s lawsuit against DeBuck’s Corn Maze and Pumpkin Patch, the...
UK High Court Allows Suit Against Shell by Nigerian Farmers, Fishermen Over Oil Spills
Feb 15 2021 // The UK Supreme Court on Friday allowed a group of 42,500 Nigerian farmers and fishermen to sue Royal Dutch Shell (RDS) in English courts after years of oil spills in the Niger Delta contaminated land and...
Germany’s Cabinet Advances Bill to Ban Farmers’ Use of Glyphosate by 2024
Feb 12 2021 // Farmers in Germany will have to gradually reduce their use of glyphosate and stop using it completely from 2024 in order to preserve clean habitats for insects, under draft legislation passed by the country’s cabinet...
Washington Farmers Suing Over Virus Rules for Migrant Workers
Feb 4 2021 // Two farm groups are suing the state of Washington for failing to revise emergency regulations that seek to protect migrant farmworkers from the COVID-19 virus. The groups filed the lawsuit this week in Yakima County...
Massachusetts Solar Farm Ordered to Pay $1M for Polluting Wetlands, River
Feb 4 2021 // Owners of a solar energy farm in Massachusetts have reached a settlement with the state’s attorney general’s office to remediate a large tract of wetlands and riverfront damaged during construction of the site...
Farmers Launches Direct-to-Consumer Policies in Mississippi
Jan 22 2021 // Farmers Insurance has launched a range of customizable insurance products in Mississippi. Customers throughout the state can now quote and purchase auto, home, condo, and renters products in a direct-to-consumer...
Oklahoma Dairy Recalls Contaminated Milk Given to Children
Jan 20 2021 // Oklahoma schools are advising people to throw away milk products received from districts after a dairy company recalled its chocolate milk because some of it may have been contaminated. Hiland Dairy is recalling 4,800...
Farms Were the Deadliest Workplaces in Montana Last Year
Jan 11 2021 // An annual report made public by the Montana Department of Labor and Industry has shown that 2019 was slightly more deadly than the previous year in workplaces, with farming the most dangerous industry. The Census of Fatal...
Farms Were the Deadliest Workplaces in Montana Last Year
Dec 30 2020 // An annual report made public by the Montana Department of Labor and Industry has shown that 2019 was slightly more deadly than the previous year in workplaces, with farming the most dangerous industry. The Census of Fatal...
Sompo Acquires Diversified Crop Insurance, Forms AgriSompo North America
Dec 29 2020 // Sompo International Holdings Ltd. (SIH), a Bermuda-based specialty provider of property/casualty insurance and reinsurance, has acquired Lenexa, Kan.-based Diversified Crop Insurance Services (DCIS), a subsidiary of CGB...
Washington Farm Fined $2M for Virus Rule Violations
Dec 28 2020 // An investigation into the COVID-19 deaths of two workers at a Central Washington farm has reportedly found dozens of safety and health violations. As a result, the Washington state Department of Labor & Industries has...
Mink Captured Outside Oregon Farm Tests Positive for Virus
Dec 28 2020 // The Oregon Department of Agriculture said among animals captured during wildlife surveillance near a mink farm that recently had a coronavirus outbreak, a mink believed to have recently escaped confinement tested positive...
Insuring Cannabis Summit: There Were Crop Risks Aplenty in 2020
Dec 21 2020 // Powered by InsuranceJournal.tv Editor’s note: This is part of a series of articles based on panels and presentations during Insurance Journal’s 2020 Insuring Cannabis Summit on Nov. 19. Is there a lot of risk...
Fire Kills 240K Chickens at Florida Farm
Dec 18 2020 // A fire early Thursday killed as many as 240,000 chickens at a Florida farm operated by one of the nation’s largest egg producers. The Pasco County fire department reports that three barns each containing up to 80,000...
Zurich and Farmers Agree to Buy MetLife’s U.S. P/C Business for $3.94 Billion
Dec 11 2020 // Zurich Insurance and Farmers Exchanges have agreed to buy MetLife’s U.S. property and casualty business for $3.94 billion, the insurers said on Friday, after the COVID-19 pandemic made motor and home insurers more...
