Latest Agribusiness Headlines
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Housing Assistance Dollars Heading to Arkansas
May 15 2011 // About $4.2 million is heading to Arkansas to help with housing and other needs following recent flooding, state and federal emergency management officials said. Housing assistance is provided to individuals, families and...
Drought Expands Dramatically in Texas, Losses Mount
May 13 2011 // Another dry week in the southern United States has driven the spread of a devastating drought further across Texas and neighboring states, promising to add to economic losses that could top $3 billion. Texas, suffering its...
Missouri Senate Sends Governor New Bill on Farm Lawsuits
May 12 2011 // Responding to objections from Gov. Jay Nixon, Missouri lawmakers passed a revised bill that would restrict the ability of neighboring property owners to bring nuisance lawsuits against large, smelly hog farms. The...
Flooded River Taking Aim at Mississippi Delta
May 12 2011 // The Mississippi River took aim at one of the most poverty-stricken parts of the U.S. Wednesday, leaving some low-lying Memphis neighborhoods inundated, but the city’s high levees protected much of the rest. In...
Louisiana Ag Chief Wants Disaster Designation for Spillway Opening
May 11 2011 // Louisiana Agriculture and Forestry Commissioner Mike Strain, D.V.M., is urging the United States Department of Agriculture Office of Risk Management to categorize the opening of the Morganza Spillway as a natural...
Virginia Farm Bureau Acquires Countryway
May 11 2011 // Virginia Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Co. has acquired New York-based Countryway Insurance Co. Countryway has premiums in excess of $33 million and operates primarily in rural New England, New York, New Jersey,...
FEMA Defends Lack of Disaster Declaration Over Texas Wildfires
May 5 2011 // The Federal Emergency Management Agency defended its decision to refuse more assistance for Texas in the wake of devastating wildfires, saying that the state has already received sufficient U.S. government help. Gov. Rick...
U.S. Supreme Court Refuses Arkansas Poultry Company Appeal
May 5 2011 // The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear an appeal by an Arkansas-based company that was ordered to pay $14.5 million to Oklahoma poultry farmers. The court declined without comment to hear the appeal by Fort Smith-based...
Missouri Farmers Sue Over Levee Breach; Feds Say Help Available
May 5 2011 // The dramatic, late-night demolition of a huge earthen levee sent chocolate-colored floodwaters pouring onto thousands of acres of Missouri farmland on May 3, easing the threat to a tiny Illinois town being menaced by the...
Mayor Orders Flood-Threatened Illinois City Evacuated
May 2 2011 // Authorities in a southern Illinois city menaced by two dangerously swollen rivers said on May 1 that most of the city’s remaining residents have heeded a mandatory evacuation order, prompted by river water seeping up...
Officials Target ‘Rebating’ in Federal Crop Insurance Sales
May 2 2011 // Farmers and insurance agents who sell federal crop insurance policies may soon be required to certify that they are not participating any rebating or incentive schemes related to the sales of those policies. The 2008...
Obama, Cabinet Vow Urgent Aid for Storm-Battered Southern States
May 1 2011 // Federal officials vowed urgent support Sunday for a region devastated by the deadliest U.S. natural disaster since Hurricane Katrina, even as they acknowledged recovery would not be quick or easy. President Barack...
Japan to Launch Massive Search for Quake Victims Bodies
Apr 25 2011 // Japan will send nearly 25,000 soldiers backed by boats and aircraft into its disaster zone Monday on an intensive land-and-sea mission to recover the bodies of those killed by last month’s earthquake and tsunami, the...
WTO Faces Tough Choices after Latest Doha Round Setback
Apr 22 2011 // World Trade Organization members face a somber Easter Sunday because of a fight over manufacturing trade between the United States and major emerging economies like China, India and Brazil that could finally kill...
Cattle, Crops at Risk From North Dakota Floods, Snow
Apr 21 2011 // Snowstorms on top of flooding in North Dakota have not yet resulted in many cattle deaths as feared, but lingering cold, wet weather threatens the state’s herd, a U.S. Department of Agriculture official said. Spring...
Hopkins to Retire from Zurich Executive Posts; Farmers Chairman
Apr 21 2011 // The Zurich Financial Services Group announced that after a 33-year career with the company, Paul N. Hopkins will retire as a member of the Group Executive Committee, regional chairman of the Americas for Zurich, and...
Ohio Non-Insured Property Exclusion Case Sent Back to Lower Court
Apr 20 2011 // The Supreme Court of Ohio has ruled that a trial court must reconsider arguments in a lawsuit over an exclusion in a homeowners’ insurance policy that bars coverage for claims “arising out of” premises...
Aspen Risk Management Adds Flute as Sales Rep
Apr 20 2011 // Aspen Risk Management Group has added Al Flute as a sales and service representative in San Diego. Flute has a diverse safety and health background working for The Zenith and Nationwide. His responsibilities included...
South Central States Assess Damage from Recent Storms
Apr 18 2011 // Tornadoes, violent thunderstorms, high wind and hail struck large swaths of Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas last week and now those states are beginning the process of assessing the damage. In Arkansas, storms...
Red River Floods Fields, but U.S. Farmers Ready
Apr 12 2011 // Record flooding in parts of the U.S. Red River Valley has slowed grain movement, but lake-like fields are nothing new to farmers who battle flooding on some scale each spring, industry officials said. The Red River, which...
