Latest Agribusiness Headlines
All the headlines from our Agribusiness Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Agents, Insurance Skills Center Host Agribusiness Program in Des Moines
Oct 5 2007 // Insurance Skills Center and the Independent Insurance Agents of Iowa will present a two-day conference focusing on farm and agribusiness insurance risks, Oct. 22-23, 2007 in Des Moines, Iowa. The Midwest Agribusiness...
Feds Declare Ky. a Natural Disaster Area Because of Drought
Oct 4 2007 // Kentucky farmers struggling to cope with a prolonged drought can seek emergency loans to help offset crop losses after state officials received word Tuesday of a federal disaster declaration due to the dry...
W. Va. Forestry Officials Fear Fire Danger from Drought
Oct 3 2007 // If conditions remain unchanged, West Virginia faces the worst fire season in 20 years and could lose as much as 4 percent of its forests to flames. The hottest, driest summer in recent memory has left a big chunk of West...
With Its Food Repuation Battered, China Showcases 3 Model Exporters
Oct 3 2007 // First comes the “wind shower.” Wearing overalls and rubber boots, employees at Fusheng Food Co. in Qingdao stand in a narrow room as air jets in the walls blow away any dust on them. They wade through...
Report Finds Accidents at Nation’s High-Risk Biolabs Increasing
Oct 3 2007 // American laboratories handling the world’s deadliest germs and toxins have experienced more than 100 accidents and missing shipments since 2003, and the number is increasing steadily as more labs across the country...
Swiss Re Launches Climate Program
Sep 27 2007 // Swiss Re announced the launch of its “Climate Adaptation Development Program” (CADP) at the Clinton Global Initiative 2007 meeting, which took place in New York on Sept.26-28. The Program is “designed to...
U.S. excess and surplus lines market attracts international attention
Sep 24 2007 // The United States excess and surplus lines market presents opportunities that are not lost on the rest of the world. Lloyd’s is the second largest U.S. surplus lines writer with a 14 percent market share. Direct...
Farmers Insurance fined $2 million; company refunds $1.4 million
Sep 24 2007 // Farmers Insurance has refunded $1.4 million to thousands of California homeowners and agreed to pay $2 million in penalties to settle complaints that the company overcharged policyholders, officials said. The settlement...
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Sep 24 2007 // Farmers Insurance fined $2 million; company refunds $1.4 million Farmers Insurance has refunded $1.4 million to thousands of California homeowners and agreed to pay $2 million in penalties to settle complaints that the...
Fla. High Court Affirms Policies Cover Only Losses from Covered Perils
Sep 21 2007 // Florida’s valued policy law means property insurance companies are only responsible for actual damages caused by perils that are specifically cited in the policy, the Florida Supreme Court has affirmed in a key...
Governor Says Feds Declare Disaster Area in N.C. Counties
Sep 17 2007 // Farmers across North Carolina are now eligible for low-interest emergency loans from the federal government to help them recover from sizable crop losses sustained in the state’s ongoing drought, Gov. Mike Easley...
Dale Approved Miss. Farm Bureau Casualty Co. Rate Reductions
Sep 14 2007 // In a step seen to indicate further stabilization of the Mississippi insurance market, Commissioner of Insurance George Dale announced that he has approved two rate filing reduction requests filed by Mississippi Farm Bureau...
Calif. Orders Recall of Organic Cream after Finding Listeria
Sep 12 2007 // California agriculture officials ordered an organic dairy to recall and quarantine some of its Grade A raw cream after finding product that contained a bacteria that can cause serious or fatal infections in children, the...
Endurance Specialty to Acquire Crop Insurer ARMTech
Sep 7 2007 // Endurance Specialty Holdings Ltd., a Bermuda-based provider of property and casualty insurance and reinsurance, reports that one of its U.S. based holding companies is buying out ARMtech Insurance Services, Inc. and its...
Officials in Midwest States Seek Federal Aid after August Storms
Sep 7 2007 // Flooding concerns continue to plague states in the Midwest after the latest round of high winds, tornadoes and heavy rain in late August. Some state officials are seeking federal aid to help homeowners and businesses get...
Farmers Insurance Fined $2 Million; Refunds $1.4 Million
Sep 7 2007 // Farmers Insurance refunded $1.4 million to thousands of California homeowners and agreed to pay $2 million in penalties to settle complaints the company overcharged policyholders, officials said. The settlement came after...
Farmers Names Sgoureva Regional VP in California
Sep 5 2007 // Farmers Insurance Group, Inc., announced that Russina Sgoureva has joined the company as regional vice president of auto product management for California. Previously, she spent more than five years with Progressive...
Farmers Honors Fire Prevention Week
Sep 5 2007 // Farmers is declaring the week of September 10-16, Wildfire Awareness Week to increase awareness of fire prevention. The company will kick off the week by presenting two checks: one to the California FireSafe Council Inc....
Gov. Fletcher Requests Federal Help for Ky. Farmers
Aug 31 2007 // Crop loss across Kentucky prompted by the third driest May through August in the past 113 years forced Gov. Ernie Fletcher to request U.S. Department of Agriculture disaster assistance for farmers across the...
2004 Audit Said W. Va. Food Warehouse was Safety Threat
Aug 16 2007 // A West Virginia agency was warned three years ago that a Charleston food warehouse whose roof collapsed last month posed a safety threat. A 2004 audit by the U.S. Department of Agriculture advised state Department of...
