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Berkshire Hathaway in Talks to Sell Workers’ Compensation Unit Applied Underwriters
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. is in advanced discussions to sell its Applied Underwriters workers compensation unit to a consortium of insurance firms, people familiar with the matter said on Friday. The deal would be a rare divestment by Buffett, …
POSTED FEBRUARY 22, 2019 7:56 PM |
TxDOT: Traffic Fatalities Increased in Energy Producing Regions
Booming energy production has brought jobs and economic gains to communities throughout Texas, but also an unintended consequence with a rise in traffic fatalities and injuries, the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) reports. In 2017, more than 194,000 crashes — …
POSTED FEBRUARY 22, 2019 5:47 PM |
Louisiana Officials Warn of Goods Stolen from Storage Units, Sheds
Authorities are telling residents in one part of Louisiana to check sheds, patios and self-storage units to see whether anything’s missing, even a kitchen sink. They’re also telling self-storage business owners to check for signs of tampering, and for locked …
POSTED FEBRUARY 22, 2019 5:36 PM |
Arkansas Panel Approves Rules for Use of Previously Banned Herbicide
An Arkansas panel has adopted a plan to allow restricted use of an herbicide banned in the wake of complaints that it drifted onto crops and caused damage. The Arkansas Plant Board voted after a 91/2-hour public hearing on Feb. …
POSTED FEBRUARY 22, 2019 5:30 PM |
Illinois EPA Shuts Medical Instrument Sterilization Facility Due to Pollution
A suburban Chicago plant that sterilizes medical instruments with a chemical believed to be cancer causing has been shut by the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency. The state EPA issued a seal order for Sterigenics U.S. in Willowbrook. The agency said …
POSTED FEBRUARY 22, 2019 5:28 PM |
Nationwide Insurance Cuts more Jobs in Iowa
Nationwide Insurance has more than doubled the number of Des Moines job cuts it announced last fall. Nationwide said in November that about 80 workers in Des Moines would lose their jobs as part of a company effort to eliminate …
POSTED FEBRUARY 22, 2019 5:25 PM |
Bill Creating North Dakota Health Reinsurance Pool Advances
Proposed legislation in North Dakota that would establish invisible reinsurance pool for the individual health insurance market, unanimously passed the North Dakota House of Representatives, the state insurance department announced. HB 1106 was developed and proposed by the North Dakota …
POSTED FEBRUARY 22, 2019 5:22 PM |
California Bill Would Make Clergy Report Abuse Revealed in Confessions
A California lawmaker says clergy should be required to report suspected child abuse and neglect even if they learn of it during confession. Democratic Sen. Jerry Hill said the bill he introduced Wednesday is “about the safety and protection of …
POSTED FEBRUARY 22, 2019 4:15 PM |
Washington Dairy Farms Take $4M Hit from Cows Lost in Blizzard
Officials say the more than 1,800 dairy cows that died in a blizzard in southern Washington state earlier this month were a nearly $4 million loss, not including the lost milk production. Farm Service Agency program specialist Gerri Richter tells …
POSTED FEBRUARY 22, 2019 4:07 PM |
Data Mistake Exposed Names of 974,000 University of Washington Patients
University of Washington Medicine says a website server inadvertently made internal files concerning nearly 1 million patients available on the internet. The organization said the files contained patients’ names and medical record numbers but no medical records, financial information or …
POSTED FEBRUARY 22, 2019 4:03 PM |
AGWEB.com - Markets
Signs of Movement
The winter doldrums may be coming to an end. The MLB baseball players are back in spring training, and the ag markets are tuning up for another exciting growing season. While the net changes for the week weren’t all that large other than in hogs, there were some larger daily moves than we’ve seen fo [...]
POSTED FEBRUARY 22, 2019 10:44 PM |
Scheve: Thinking Of The Farm As A Business
POSTED FEBRUARY 18, 2019 12:55 PM |
Winter Grind
The commodity markets had a bit of SAD this week, the seasonal affective disorder tied to lack of daylight and melatonin. The stock markets were full of sunshiny optimism, even ignoring a lousy retail sales report because they assumed (as we did) that there is some faulty data in there. Not so the g [...]
POSTED FEBRUARY 15, 2019 11:25 PM |
Scheve: Selling Hope And Time
POSTED FEBRUARY 11, 2019 3:49 PM |
Not Off of Dead Center
A lot of the price charts for the grains were either in well defined channels or triangle formations this week. They were comfortable with what they knew but set up to break out larger price ranges on any surprises from the USDA reports on Friday. The USDA reports did not disappoint in terms of surp [...]
POSTED FEBRUARY 08, 2019 11:05 PM |
Scheve: Tell Your Friends And Neighbors To STOP USING FREE DP
POSTED FEBRUARY 04, 2019 4:28 PM |
January in February
You’ve seen the Christmas in July sales promos. Now it’s time for the USDA “January reports in February” sales. There could be some good buys, but they haven’t opened the doors yet! USDA has announced that all of the reports scheduled for the January 11 mega report day will be released this coming F [...]
POSTED FEBRUARY 01, 2019 10:03 PM |
Scheve: A Market That Goes Nowhere Can Still Provide Opportunity
POSTED JANUARY 28, 2019 7:36 PM |
Fasten Your Seat Belts
Most of the ag commodities have been on auto pilot the last month. Now, we’re getting ready for a barrage of hard numbers as the government re-opens. USDA, CFTC, Census and other agencies have a month or more of past due reports to clean up and release to the public. Some may be combined, making com [...]
POSTED JANUARY 25, 2019 10:33 PM |
Scheve: Current Corn Fundamentals: Why I Think There Is Price Rally Potential
POSTED JANUARY 21, 2019 4:36 PM |
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