Latest Agribusiness Headlines
All the headlines from our Agribusiness Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Iowa Egg Farms Settle Suit Over Salmonella Recalls
Jul 17 2013 // The Iowa egg producers blamed for a 2010 salmonella outbreak have settled a lawsuit brought by a California distributor that lost profits from the foodborne illnesses and the resulting product recalls, court records...
USDA Issues Drought Disaster For East Idaho Counties
Jul 15 2013 // Federal agriculture officials have issued a disaster declaration for Clark County in eastern Idaho due to a lack of rain for the last two months. The U.S. Department of Agriculture this week also put four other nearby...
Heavy Rains Cause Major Floods, Mudslides in China: AIR Worldwide
Jul 12 2013 // AIR Worldwide reports that “days of heavy rain across the mountainous Yunnan and Sichuan provinces of southwestern China have caused widespread flooding and triggered landslides. Official reports state that 99...
House Passes Republican Farm Bill Without Food Stamps
Jul 11 2013 // House Republicans passed a five-year U.S. farm-policy bill that retains subsidies to farmers and strips out food-stamp spending, costing it Democratic support. The plan was approved today 216-208, with no Democrats in...
Guy Carpenter Facilitates Launch of Multi-Peril Crop Insurance in Australia
Jul 10 2013 // Guy Carpenter & Co., LLC, a global risk and reinsurance specialist and member of Marsh & McLennan Cos. has facilitated the launch of a Multi-Peril Crop Insurance (MPCI) product for Australian grain growers for the...
California Officials Probe Another Farmworker Death
Jul 10 2013 // California workplace safety officials are investigating the death of a second farmworker as possibly heat-related. The state’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health said on Monday that a 37-year-old farmworker...
House May Split Food Stamps from Rest of Farm Bill
Jul 10 2013 // U.S. House leaders have decided to split food stamps and other nutrition programs from farm subsidies and bring an agriculture-only bill up for a vote before the August recess, a Republican leadership aide said. Such a...
U.S. EU Launch Free Trade Talks Despite Spying Concerns
Jul 9 2013 // The United States and the European Union began talks on Monday on a landmark bilateral free trade agreement, despite European concerns about U.S. spying that had threatened to delay the start after nearly two years of...
Agri-Groups Urge New House Vote on Farm Bill
Jul 3 2013 // Hundreds of U.S. farm and agribusiness groups have urged Republican leaders in the House of Representatives to try again to pass the $500 billion, five-year farm bill that suffered an historic and unexpected defeat in...
New El Nino Warnings Could Help Farmers Withstand Drought, Floods
Jul 2 2013 // Scientists have found a way to forecast El Nino weather events in the Pacific a year in advance, long enough to let farmers plant crops less vulnerable to global shifts in rainfall, a study showed on Monday. While far from...
China Expands System to Track Food Shipments
Jul 1 2013 // China is expanding a pilot system that tracks the movement of meat and vegetables to the supermarket shelf as part of efforts to tighten supervision of its scandal-plagued food industry. Under the programme, which is...
Bethesda, Md., Ranked as Most Secure Metro Area in Farmers Insurance Study
Jun 28 2013 // The Bethesda–Gaithersburg–Frederick region in Maryland was ranked as the most secure large U.S. metro area in the latest study published by Farmers Insurance Group of Companies. This annual study defines large...
Alberta Farms Avoid Widespread Damage from Worst Flood on Record
Jun 28 2013 // Damage to farmland in southern Alberta is not “widespread” after the region’s worst floods on record, according to Katrina Bluetchen, a spokeswoman for the provincial agriculture ministry. Reports...
Senate Leader Reid Rules Out Extending Current Farm Law
Jun 25 2013 // The Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives needs to solve its farm bill impasse by enacting the Senate’s bipartisan bill, Majority Leader Harry Reid said on Monday, warning that the Democrat-run Senate...
$6 Million Oregon Jury Award In Agriculture Equipment Injury
Jun 24 2013 // A Multnomah County jury has awarded more than $6 million to a 21-year-old Oregon agricultural worker who was paralyzed from the waist down when his torso was crushed in a hay bale-cutting machine. The jury found that...
U.S. May Fall Back on Old Farm Law If No Agreement
Jun 23 2013 // The U.S. Congress is headed for a second stop-gap extension of current farm law if Republican leaders in the House of Representatives cannot get new legislation back on track after a stunning defeat. Farm lobbyists and...
U.S. House Strikes Down Republican Farm Bill
Jun 21 2013 // Republican budget-cutters joined Democratic defenders of food stamps on Thursday to deal a shocking defeat to the $500 billion farm bill backed by Republican leaders in the House of Representatives, undermining hopes of...
Milk Money: Farm Bill Could Hinge On Dairy Vote
Jun 18 2013 // Approval of a massive farm bill – and the cost of a gallon of milk – could hinge on a proposed new dairy program the House is expected to vote on this week. An overhaul of dairy policy and a new insurance program for...
White House Threatens Veto of Farm Bill Over Food Stamp Cuts
Jun 18 2013 // The White House threatened to veto a five-year farm bill on Thursday because of “unacceptable deep cuts” in food stamps for the poor that could increase hunger across America. In a statement on the eve of...
Farmers Names Yahoo! Veteran Spagnoletto Head of Digital Strategy
Jun 17 2013 // Los Angeles, Calif.-based Farmers insurance named Patrizio Spagnoletto as the company’s head of digital strategy. Spagnoletto will be responsible for defining and executing on an enterprise-wide digital strategy and...
