Latest Agribusiness Headlines
All the headlines from our Agribusiness Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Missouri Dairy Producer to Settle $140K Disability Discrimination Suit
Jan 12 2023 // ST. LOUIS – Hiland Dairy Foods, a Springfield, Missouri-based producer and distributor of dairy products, will pay $140,000 to resolve a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity...
Fire Floods Wisconsin Dairy Plant With Butter
Jan 9 2023 // MADISON, Wis. (AP) – The state Department of Natural Resource is helping local government workers clean up after a fire flooded a dairy plant with butter. The fire broke out in a butter storage room at the Associated...
Mississippi Farms Settle Suits Over South African Laborers’ Higher Wages
Jan 9 2023 // Two agriculture businesses in the Mississippi Delta and some Black farm workers have settled the workers’ lawsuits over claims the farms hired white laborers from South Africa and paid them more than the local Black...
Florida Crops Appear to Have Escaped Serious Damage From Unusually Cold Weather
Dec 29 2022 // Florida’s citrus, fruit and vegetable crops appear to have escaped any widespread damage from some of the coldest weather in years, officials with state growers associations said Tuesday. A cloud cover helped protect...
Fire Heavily Damages Buildings at Indiana Farmers’ Co-Op
Dec 20 2022 // DILLSBORO, Ind. (AP) – A fire heavily damaged buildings at a southeastern Indiana farmers’ co-operative that provides livestock feed, producing flames visible miles away, officials and witnesses...
Fire on Vermont Dairy Farm Destroys Barn, Kills 40 Cows
Dec 15 2022 // GRAND ISLE, Vt. (AP) — Fire has destroyed a Grand Isle dairy barn and killed about 40 cows trapped inside, Vermont State Police said Tuesday. A neighbor spotted the flames coming from the north end of the barn Monday...
USDA: Florida Orange Crop Down 36% After Two Hurricanes
Dec 12 2022 // Production of oranges in Florida this season is forecast to be down 36% from earlier estimates, in part a reflection of twin hurricanes that battered growing regions, according to U.S. Agriculture Department figures...
Rokstone to Launch Ohio-Based Farm and Ranch Division
Nov 28 2022 // Rokstone Agriculture Risk Underwriters, the U.S. specialist agriculture division of the International Speciality (Re)Insurance MGA, Rokstone, has acquired two US market leading senior underwriters to launch a new...
Police: 4 Dead at Oklahoma Pot Farm Were ‘Executed,’ Chinese Citizens
Nov 28 2022 // LACEY, Okla. (AP) – Police have identified a suspect in the slayings of four people at an Oklahoma marijuana farm but said they aren’t releasing a name because doing so could put more people in danger. Authorities...
Suspect Sought After 4 Killed at Oklahoma Marijuana Farm
Nov 23 2022 // LACEY, Okla. (AP) – Authorities have “a suspect in mind” after four people were found dead and one injured at a marijuana farm in rural Oklahoma, but no arrests have been announced. Oklahoma State Bureau of...
10,000 Mink Loose, Missing After Vandalism at Ohio Farm
Nov 18 2022 // VAN WERT, Ohio (AP) – Vandalism freed thousands of mink at a rural northwest Ohio farm, leaving an estimated 10,000 of the small carnivorous mammals unaccounted for Tuesday evening, the local sheriff said. So many minks...
Two Farmers Indicted in Kentucky Crop Insurance Fraud
Nov 16 2022 // Two Kentucky farmers and a relative have been indicted for falsifying crop damage and exaggerating the size of their fields in order to reap crop insurance benefits. A federal grand jury last week charged Randall Taulbee...
In Hot Tub Case, Farm Bureau Must Defend Insured in Deadly Legionnaires’ Disease Outbreak in North Carolina
Nov 7 2022 // What started out as festive time at the North Carolina Mountain State Fair in 2019 ended with 96 people hospitalized with Legionnaires’ disease. Four of them died. The tragedy in Fletcher, North Carolina, made...
Federal Court Finds Pennsylvania Poultry Farm in Contempt Over OSHA Penalties
Oct 28 2022 // A federal court has found Birdsboro Kosher Farms Corp. in contempt for failing to pay $162,359 in penalties after an inspection by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration found numerous safety hazards. The U.S....
Hurricane Ian Came at the Worst Possible Time for SW Florida Agriculture
Oct 24 2022 // Hurricane Ian made landfall in southwest Florida at the worst possible time for many in the agricultural community, cutting a path through the heart of Florida’s citrus belt and smashing tomato fields just before the...
Report: Hurricane Ian Farm Loss Could Reach $1.56 Billion
Oct 20 2022 // Agriculture losses in Florida from Hurricane Ian’s high winds and drenching rains could reach $1.56 billion, with citrus, cattle, vegetable and melon operations among the hardest hit, the University of Florida...
People Moves: Lockton Re Taps CyberCube’s Brew for London Cyber Practice; Howden Hires Tysers Godfrey for Equine Division; Carpenter’s Delegated Authority Unit Hires 3
Oct 19 2022 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at three brokers: Lockton Re’s Cyber Practice, Howden’s Equine division and Guy Carpenter’s delegated authority unit. A summary of these new...
Farm Bureau Must Defend Insured in Deadly Legionnaires’ Disease Outbreak in Carolina
Oct 19 2022 // What started out as festive time at the North Carolina Mountain State Fair in 2019 ended with 96 people hospitalized with Legionnaires’ disease. Four of them died. The tragedy in Fletcher, North Carolina, made...
UK Orders Poultry Farmers to Take Steps to Stop Spread of Bird Flu
Oct 18 2022 // Britain has ordered farmers to enact measures to curb bird flu cases, as the virus spreads in other parts of the world from Europe to the US. The UK government on Monday declared a prevention zone that requires farmers to...
Wheat Farmers May Scale Back Planting As Drought Persists, Insurance Deadline Nears
Oct 17 2022 // With planting roughly halfway complete, the 2023 U.S. hard red winter wheat crop is already being hobbled by drought in the heart of the southern Plains, wheat experts said. Planting plans may be scaled back in the U.S....
