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closeWednesday, May. 28, 2008
Northwest Farm Credit Services buys Prosser insurance company
Ingrid Stegemoeller, Herald staff writer
PROSSER -- Columbia Insurance Associates has been purchased by Spokane-based Northwest Farm Credit Services.
Dean and Judi Benson, Columbia Insurance owners, and their staff will become Northwest FCS employees as of Sept. 1. Dean Benson will manage operations in Prosser as well as becoming Northwest FCS vice president for Prosser and Insurance Acquisitions.
Northwest FCS provides crop insurance and agricultural credit to farmers, ranchers, commercial anglers, timber producers and agribusinesses in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana and Alaska.
-- Ingrid Stegemoeller: 582-1537; istegemoeller@tricityherald.com; Business Beat blog at www.tricityherald.com
| Pratik Joshi covers technology, employment, transportation, economic development and industrial growth. He joined the Herald in December 2006. He likes to write stories that educate. And there's hardly a subject he's not interested in. Drop him a line at pjoshi@tricityherald.com. |
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