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State Farm and Allstate are no longer accepting applications for new home insurance in California. Existing State Farm and Allstate homeowners insurance customers in the state will retain their coverage. Compare homeowners insurance quotes with PolicygeniusGet the latest tips you need to manage your money — delivered to you biweekly. State Farm cited both high construction costs in the state and the increasing risk of wildfires as the reasons behind its decision. This won't affect State Farm auto insurance customers in California, either; applications for car coverage will remain open and nothing will change for existing policy holders.

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☆ Insurance is the effect not the cause, says III CEO Kevelighan on State Farm's California decision
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-31 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailInsurance is the effect not the cause, says III CEO Kevelighan on State Farm's California decisionSean Kevelighan, Insurance Information Institute CEO, and Tom Corringham, Scripps Institution of Oceanography research economist, join 'Last Call' to discuss news that State Farm will no longer insure new houses in California.

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☆ State Farm to stop accepting homeowners insurance applications in California due to wildfires, construction costs
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-27 | by ( Ashley Capoot | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

State Farm General Insurance Company on Friday announced that it will stop accepting new homeowners insurance applications in California, citing "rapidly growing" catastrophe risks like wildfires, "historic increases" in construction costs and a challenging reinsurance market. State Farm said it will stop accepting new business, personal lines property and casualty insurance applications starting Saturday. The company said it will work with the California Department of Insurance and other policymakers to improve conditions in California, but that State Farm decided to take action to improve its "financial strength. "We will continue to evaluate our approach based on changing market conditions," State Farm said. State Farm did not immediately respond to CNBC's request for comment.

☆ UK oil, gas firms to leave year's worth of output in ground with tax hikes-report
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-27 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

"When we talk about investment in the UK oil and gas resources, it's not about exponential growth, it's about managed decline," Dornan said. Any fresh incentives for oil producers are likely to be decried by climate activists, not least since Britain experienced an oil leak over the weekend at Anglo-French oil company Wytch Farm's onshore field in Dorset. Britain's biggest oil and gas producer, Harbour , has announced job cuts and shunned the latest licensing round. TotalEnergies (TTEF.PA) cut its UK investment programme by a quarter. Reuters Graphics Reuters GraphicsReuters Graphics Reuters GraphicsBritain's oil and gas production($1 = 0.8166 pounds)Reporting by Shadia Nasralla; Editing by Sharon SingletonOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ U.S. farmers plan to go 'heavy on corn' in 2023
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-06 | by ( Mark Weinraub | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

Plans for the upcoming season were made even as doubts mounted about demand and price gains for soybeans outstripped corn late last year. 2 U.S. cash crop, soybeans. Hunnicutt cited the reliability of corn yields as a key reason to go big on corn in 2023. DEMAND WANESU.S. farmers alternate between soybeans and corn in a bid to maintain soil health. Last year's harvest shortfall left corn supplies at their lowest since 2013 and made farmers hopeful that prices would rally in the coming months.

☆ Concerns about golden eagles are partly prompting the redesign of a Scottish wind farm
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-01 | by ( Anmar Frangoul | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

In a project update last week, the firm behind the Scoop Hill Community Wind Farm said revisions to the development had been made after "extensive and iterative discussions" with both the local community and consultees. If built, the Scoop Hill Community Wind Farm will have 60 turbines instead of the 75 that were originally proposed. Plans for an onshore wind farm in Scotland have been revised after a number of concerns, including those related to how the project might affect golden eagles. Golden eagle concernsThe decision to reduce the number of turbines for Scoop Hill follows a period of consultation for the project. "The impact of wind farms on birds and bats is extremely low compared to the impact of climate change and other human activity," it adds.

Power giant Orsted aims to build a huge offshore windfarm to help the country meet renewable goals. Last year the North Sea Transition Authority (NSTA), which regulates offshore energy activity, concluded that large crossovers between such ventures were unfeasible with current technology. This largely unreported clash risks undermining Britain's drive to meet its climate goals, according to the companies involved and a North Sea green transition expert. The BP-Orsted showdown could also presage similar disputes elsewhere in an increasingly crowded North Sea, the experts told Reuters. There is hope on the horizon for wind and CCS projects that share ground, say regulators and industry experts.

☆ Meat cultivated from cow cells is kosher, Israel's chief rabbi rules
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-19 | by ( Ari Rabinovitch | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

[1/2] People prepare Aleph Farms' cultivated thin-cut beef steaks in this handout image taken November 9, 2022. Cultivated meat, grown from animal cells in a lab or manufacturing plant, has been getting a lot of attention as a way to sidestep the environmental toll of the meat industry and address concerns over animal welfare. Jewish dietary law designates kosher meat as having come from a cow slaughtered in accordance with ritual - and requires that it be kept and consumed separately from dairy. Aleph Farms says it collects sample cells from a living animal and then grows more in a cultivator that mimics conditions in the animal's body. While the decision was specific for Aleph Farm's process, it sets a foundation for others.

Like most European countries, Portugal is accelerating its shift to renewables to reduce reliance on imported fossil fuels whose prices have surged since Russia's invasion of Ukraine. He expected Europe's accelerating push for renewable energies to help streamline the licensing of hybrid projects and shorten their implementation times from up to six years now. It is already building four other parks in Iberia and plans to bring online 1.6 GW of hybrid capacity there this decade. EDPR has an installed capacity of 3.4 GW in Iberia alone and 14.3 GW globally. Reporting by Sergio Goncalves and Miguel Pereira, editing by Andrei Khalip and David EvansOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ New York's first legal recreational marijuana shop opens
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-29 | by ( Daniel Fastenberg | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

The dispensary was opened in New York City's East Village by Housing Works, a non-profit organization that fights homelessness and AIDS. The non-profit was among the first 36 groups or individuals that the state awarded with a marijuana retail license last month. Retailers can also only sell marijuana that licensed New York producers grew and processed. Alexander, the state marijuana director, said local and state law enforcement have been educating gray-market vendors on the licensing rules, following up with cease-and-desist letters and, more recently, seizing merchandise. New York's marijuana sales will be taxed at 13.5%, revenue that will go to schools, public housing, addiction services and mental health services.

Any conversion to a whole life insurance product goes through the same application as a new life insurance policy. Simplified Term Life Insurance: Enjoy quick and easy application (no medical exam life insurance) and approval (subject to health history) with this no-nonsense option. Whole Life Insurance: A whole life policy delivers life insurance coverage for an individual's entire life. A licensed life insurance agent is always the best resource for purchasing an appropriate life insurance plan. Seeing the limits on American Family life insurance policies, you might buy multiple life policies.

☆ Lab-grown meat could be served up for dinner soon. What does it taste like?
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-19 | by ( Julia Horowitz | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

It has a capacity of 600 liters, or 159 gallons, allowing the company to produce 6,000 pounds of cultivated meat per year. Right now, Singapore is alone in allowing the sale of cultivated meat to consumers, having issued a green light in late 2020. Yet delivering on the promise of lab-grown meat won’t just come down to regulators. CNN“The promise of cultivated meat [is] to bring forth a taste and texture component, and to deliver sustainability,” said Gautam Godhwani, managing partner at Good Startup, a Singapore-based venture capital firm that has invested in eight cultivated meat startups. “I think the whole of the cultivated meat industry will go hybrid first,” Ivy Farm’s Dillon said.

☆ A food fight is raging over what we can and can't call 'meat'
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-17 | by ( Tasmin Lockwood | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +13 min

Morten Toft Bech, the founder of a startup that makes plant-based meat alternatives, brought the animals in protest. Meat lobbies argue that plant-based products have stolen the concept of meat without matching its taste and nutrition standards, tarnishing the integrity and cultural importance of meat. It tends to argue that plant-based meat alternatives shouldn't be allowed to use meaty terms at all because, put simply, they aren't meat. Meat bodies want startups to come up with new terms for plant-based food that imitates meat. Both meat organizations and plant-based companies told Insider they encouraged a healthy, balanced diet.

☆ Solar sharing helps farmers in Japan adopt sustainable methods — and earn additional money
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-12 | by ( Freya Graham | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Solar sharing, or agrivoltaics, is a system where solar panels and farming are on the same land. His family business, Hattori Tea Farms, situated in the Shizuoka prefecture in Japan, had been growing sencha green tea for over a century. He landed on a solution: Rather than growing regular green tea, the farm would specialize in high-quality matcha. "Big solar farms can be very disruptive because the land use is only for harnessing solar energy. While the increased amount of shade can reduce a farm's productivity, solar panels can bring benefits to the crops, too.

☆ 7 steps to launch your small business and begin a career as your own boss
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-30 | by ( Sponsor Post | Created Insider Studios With State Farm | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Create a detailed business planWhile not necessary, having a full-fledged business plan in place can be useful, especially if you intend to seek funding for your business. Usually, a business plan includes, but is not limited to:Your company nameAn executive business summaryOperations and managementMarketing and sales strategyFinancial projections3. Register and protect your businessOnce the company's name, location, and business structure are determined, you may consider registering your business. Doing so allows you to access legal benefits, tax benefits, and business insurance, like State Farm's Business Owners Policy, which can help protect your operations from unforeseen events. Learn more about how State Farm small business insurance coverage options can help your business thrive.

[1/7] Herbs and micro-greens grown at the underground farm in a disused World War Two bunker using hydroponic technology and LED lighting, powered by renewable energy, are pictured in London, Britain November 24, 2022. REUTERS/Maja SmiejkowskaLONDON, Nov 28 (Reuters) - In an underground World War Two air raid shelter where London tube trains can be heard rattling overhead, aromatic coriander leaves tilt towards the pink glow of LED bulbs - a vision of how farms could look in the future. Zero Carbon Farms grows herbs and salads in Clapham, south London, a densely populated area with no room for conventional agriculture. But 30 metres below ground there is a kilometre of tunnels, and technology has made farming here a reality. "What makes this industry so exciting and challenging is that no one's quite cracked it," said Zero Carbon Farm's business development director Olivia O'Brien.

☆ The 'world's largest floating wind farm' produces its first power
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-14 | by ( Anmar Frangoul | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

A facility described as the world's largest floating wind farm produced its first power over the weekend, with more turbines set to come online before the year is out. The use of a floating wind farm to help power the production of fossil fuels is likely to spark some controversy, however. Earlier this year, meanwhile, the White House said it was targeting 15 gigawatts of floating offshore wind capacity by the year 2035. As well as the 15 GW ambition, a "Floating Offshore Wind Shot" aims to reduce the costs of floating technologies by over 70% by the year 2035. "Bringing floating offshore wind technology to scale will unlock new opportunities for offshore wind power off the coasts of California and Oregon, in the Gulf of Maine, and beyond," the statement added.

☆ 5G-enabled farms could ward off food insecurity and unlock $100 billion in global profits by 2030
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-10 | by ( Clara Mcmichael | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

There lies Swans Trail Farms, a family-owned operation that focuses on agritourism and events with apple orchards, a corn maze, a pumpkin patch, and strawberry fields. Swans Trail FarmsSnohomish County and the 5G Open Innovation Lab launched sites to pilot 5G-enabled agricultural tech on two farms— Swans Trail and Andrew's Hay. CARES Act funding for the initiative dried up last year, but the 5G Open Innovation Lab continues to fund the project. The 5G Open Innovation Lab and Innov8.ag are working to expand to eastern Washington, an area of the state that's more agricultural. We've had our hiccups," Jim Brisimitzis, the head of the 5G Open Innovation Lab, said.

TikTok star Emmanuel the emu is battling Avian Influenza, his caretaker, Taylor Blake, tweeted Saturday. The virus has now claimed the lives of 99% of the farm's birds and left Emmanuel fighting for his life since Wednesday. "I will do anything and go into any amount of debt to save his life," Blake tweeted about her best friend. On Sunday, Blake tweeted that Emmanuel is making progress -- sitting up by himself, taking backwards steps and putting pressure on his right foot. “Emmanuel, don’t do it!” Blake often says to the emu when he crosses in front of her and the iPhone camera.

A declaration page — or dec page — is the page of your auto policy that lays out your coverages and how much you're paying for them. By understanding your dec page line by line, you can confidently comparison shop insurance products. To do this, I had to familiarize myself with the first page of my policy — often referred to as a declaration, or dec, page. Brynne ConroyOn this particular policy, my dec page turned into dec pages, continuing onto page two. Now that you know how to read a dec page, you can do the same.

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