Latest Agribusiness Headlines
All the headlines from our Agribusiness Topic Page, ordered by recency.
North Carolina Farm Bureau Insurance Group Selects SEEC’s CSA
Aug 3 2004 // SEEC Inc., a provider of legacy modernization solutions for insurance, financial services and manufacturing, and Enterprise Web provider Plumtree Software announced that North Carolina Farm Bureau Insurance Group (NCFB)...
Crop Insurers, Agents Unhappy With New SRA
Jul 20 2004 // The deadline for crop insurers to agree to the 2005 version of the federal crop insurance program’s Standard Reinsurance Agreement came and went June 30. And while all the 14 insurers who participated in the program...
Crop Insurers, Agents Unhappy With $36 Million Subsidy Cut for 2005
Jul 19 2004 // The deadline for crop insurers to agree to the 2005 version of the federal crop insurance program’s standard reinsurance agreement (SRA) came and went June 30. While all the 14 insurers that participated in the...
Crop Insurers, Agents Unhappy With New SRA’s $36 Million Subsidy Cut
Jul 19 2004 // The deadline for crop insurers to agree to the 2005 version of the federal crop insurance program’s Standard Reinsurance Agreement (SRA) came and went June 30. And while all the 14 insurers who participated in the...
China Wakes Up as the World Watches
Jul 19 2004 // This is the first in a series of articles on the Asia insurance marketplace. Part two in this series will focus on India and will appear in a September issue of Insurance Journal. “Let China Sleep, for when she...
Texas Gov. Requests Disaster Assistance for Briscoe County Following June Storms
Jul 16 2004 // Texas Gov. Rick Perry has requested that the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Farm Service Agency provide disaster relief and assistance for Briscoe County that has suffered damage from excessive rain, hail,...
Iowa Big I to Host Midwest Agribusiness Conference
Jul 14 2004 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Iowa is holding a two-day training seminar focusing on farm and agribusiness insurance risks Oct. 19-20 in Des Moines. The seminar, dubbed “The First Midwest Agribusiness...
Pa. Ag Secretary Notes Crop Reporting Deadline
Jul 8 2004 // Pennsylvania Agriculture Secretary Dennis Wolff reminded Pennsylvania farmers to report their acreage for spring-planted crops enrolled in the 2004 Crop Insurance Program before the July 15 deadline. “The...
At NAMIC, The Door’s Wide Open to Companies of All Sizes
Jul 5 2004 // Chairman Tim Hegarty Explains How His Trade Group Serves Big and Small Alike What happens when you put giants like State Farm, AIG, Nationwide and Liberty Mutual in a room with tiny farm mutuals like Husbandsmans Mutual,...
Farm & Ranch Equipment Breakdown Package
Jun 21 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: Hartford Steam Boiler is offering a customized farm equipment breakdown insurance product to other property-casualty insurers who serve the farm and ranch market. HSB also supplies a full range of...
Regional Focus
Jun 21 2004 // Former Speaker of the House Tip O’Neill was attributed with the comment that “all politics are local.” The same could be said for the insurance industry—insurance coverage is definitely local. In...
Crop Insurers Sue USDA Over Subsidy Amount
Jun 16 2004 // A coalition of insurance companies is suing the U.S. Department of Agriculture, claiming the government has shortchanged them millions of dollars in the Federal Crop Insurance Program new Standard Reinsurance Agreement, or...
Australian Farmers Support Compulsory Fire Levy
Jun 11 2004 // A report from the Australian Broadcasting Corp. notes that The New South Wales Farmers Association has backed a proposal for council rate notices [property taxes] to carry a compulsory fire insurance levy. The article...
Western Growers Urges Further Workers’ Comp Reductions
Jun 4 2004 // Following up on their successful plea for workers’ compensation rate reductions, Western Growers’ leadership again called on remaining insurance companies to decrease their rates. In April, the fresh produce...
Sen. Clinton, Bipartisan Coalition Ask USDA to Improve Apple Crop Insurance
Jun 3 2004 // New York Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton has joined with her Senate colleagues in a bipartisan campaign to improve crop insurance coverage for all apple growers in New York and across the country. In a letter to Agriculture...
Beneducci Promoted to COO at Fireman’s Fund
May 21 2004 // Joseph Beneducci has been promoted to executive vice president and chief operating officer of Fireman’s Fund Insurance Company, reporting to Charles Kavitsky, president and CEO. Beneducci was formerly executive vice...
The Sad Case of the Mad Cow
May 17 2004 // The discovery in December 2003 of the first known case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE)—commonly known as mad cow disease—in the United States was a downer, both literally and figuratively. A United States...
Farmers Ranked Top P/C Insurer in Arizona
May 11 2004 // In one of the largest business opinion polls ever taken in Arizona, “Ranking Arizona” named Farmers Insurance Group the best Property and Casualty Insurance Company for the third year in a row. This is the...
PCI Welcomes Three New Member Companies
May 6 2004 // The Property Casualty Insurers Association of America announced that Farmers Union Mutual Insurance Company, American Vehicle Insurance Company, and Federal National Insurance Company have joined the association. The...
Farm & Ranch Equipment Breakdown Package
May 3 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: Hartford Steam Boiler is offering a customized farm equipment breakdown insurance product to other P/C insurers who serve the farm and ranch market. HSB also supplies a full range of specialized services...
