Crop Insurers Can Handle Midwest Drought Losses: Fitch
Analysts at Fitch Ratings say they believe the leading writers of crop insurance will be able to absorb any near-term crop losses from the current drought in the Midwest. Fitch said the insurers are...
View ArticleHouse Farm Bill Expands Crop Insurance, Cuts Food Stamps
A Republican-controlled panel in the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday approved the biggest cuts in food stamps for the poor in a generation and a potentially expensive expansion of federally...
View ArticleMonsanto to Buy Weather Data Modeler, Farm Insurer Climate Corp. for $930...
Monsanto Co., the world’s largest seed company, agreed to buy The Climate Corp. for about $930 million to provide farmers with weather data and agronomic modeling to boost yields and manage risk....
View ArticlePrivate Crop Insurers Win As Taxpayers Lose in New Farm Program, Say Critics
U.S. farmers last week finalized their crop insurance plans for spring planting with critics of the government-subsidized program saying insurers are set up for a bonanza after passage of the new...
View ArticleObama Budget: Taxes, Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, Crop Insurance, Wildfires
President Barack Obama on Monday proposed a $3.99 trillion budget for fiscal year 2016 that sets up a battle with Republicans over programs to boost the middle class that are funded by higher taxes on...
View ArticleAspen Acquires Crop Insurer AgriLogic
Specialty insurer Aspen Insurance has acquired AgriLogic Insurance Services and certain affiliates for cash in a transaction that further diversifies Aspens’s specialty insurance business. AgriLogic,...
View ArticleInsurer Comings-and-Goings Show U.S. Crop Insurance a Field for Specialists
The U.S. crop insurance market has been abandoned by some of its largest companies as lower agricultural prices crimp revenue, and uncertainty about federal aid clouds the business’s future. Cargill...
View ArticleCrop Insurers Can Handle Midwest Drought Losses: Fitch
Analysts at Fitch Ratings say they believe the leading writers of crop insurance will be able to absorb any near-term crop losses from the current drought in the Midwest. Fitch said the insurers are...
View ArticleHouse Farm Bill Expands Crop Insurance, Cuts Food Stamps
A Republican-controlled panel in the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday approved the biggest cuts in food stamps for the poor in a generation and a potentially expensive expansion of federally...
View ArticleMonsanto to Buy Weather Data Modeler, Farm Insurer Climate Corp. for $930...
Monsanto Co., the world’s largest seed company, agreed to buy The Climate Corp. for about $930 million to provide farmers with weather data and agronomic modeling to boost yields and manage risk....
View ArticlePrivate Crop Insurers Win As Taxpayers Lose in New Farm Program, Say Critics
U.S. farmers last week finalized their crop insurance plans for spring planting with critics of the government-subsidized program saying insurers are set up for a bonanza after passage of the new...
View ArticleObama Budget: Taxes, Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, Crop Insurance, Wildfires
President Barack Obama on Monday proposed a $3.99 trillion budget for fiscal year 2016 that sets up a battle with Republicans over programs to boost the middle class that are funded by higher taxes on...
View ArticleAspen Acquires Crop Insurer AgriLogic
Specialty insurer Aspen Insurance has acquired AgriLogic Insurance Services and certain affiliates for cash in a transaction that further diversifies Aspens’s specialty insurance business. AgriLogic,...
View ArticleInsurer Comings-and-Goings Show U.S. Crop Insurance a Field for Specialists
The U.S. crop insurance market has been abandoned by some of its largest companies as lower agricultural prices crimp revenue, and uncertainty about federal aid clouds the business’s future. Cargill...
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