It’s not just crop growers who have to be concerned with the damages caused by deer. Livestock growers feel the effects of the Bambi invasion nearly as heavily as do those farmers raising cash crops. Deer not only chew through feed crops and water supplies, they bring down fences and introduce disease to livestock. How [...]
When you hear the word “antitrust” it’s often associated with large corporations such as airlines, software companies, and financial corporations. Until recently, no one would have thought that antitrust laws would be breached at the agribusiness level. Yet that’s exactly what one former tomato grower is charged with. Frederick Scott Salyer has pleaded not guilty [...]
Farmers used to adopting their risk management plan around a federal failsafe may soon find that failsafe gone. That’s because the current USDA negotiating draft of the Standard Reinsurance Agreement has a huge hole in it the size of $6.9 billion. The proposed cuts come from the crop insurance program and are three times that [...]
Bracing for the Terrorist Storm in Agribusiness
May 4th, 2010Late spring and early summer are busy times for farmers, but they can also be dangerous times. Severe storms, tornadoes, lightning strikes, flooding and the like can interrupt business, damage or destroy crops, or kill or severely injure livestock. Now you have a new one – agroterrorism. Certainly more emphasis has been put on agroterrorism [...]
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