by Ramie Parsons | Jan 23, 2024 | Quarterly Newsletter
The National Agricultural Law Center compiles and publishes a quarterly newsletter highlighting recent and upcoming events and resources. The newsletter for the fourth quarter of 2023 is available here. To sign up for future newsletters, click...
by Brigit Rollins | Jan 18, 2024 | Brigit Rollins, Clean Water Act, Environmental Law, Environmental Protection Agency
In April 2020, the United States Supreme Court issued its final ruling Cty. of Maui v. Hawaii Wildlife Fund, 590 U.S. – (2020), concluding that the discharge of pollutants into groundwater was a violation of the Clean Water Act (“CWA”). This landmark decision...
by Emily Stone | Jan 16, 2024 | Emily Stone, Land Ownership, Legal Issues with Land Trusts, Sustainable Agriculture
With an increased interest in conservation and land preservation, the use of legal tools like land trusts and conservation easements have grown in popularity. Specifically, nonprofit land trusts which typically act as a 501(c)(3) organization for the purpose of...
by Ramie Parsons | Jan 11, 2024 | The Feed
The Feed newsletter highlights recent legal developments affecting agriculture, with issues released twice a month. Click below to sign up for The Feed, and also read the PDF for Vol. 2, Issue 1, from January 11, 2024. To sign up for The Feed, click here. Click here...
by Elizabeth | Jan 11, 2024 | Finance and Credit, Samantha Capaldo, Taxation
April may feel far away in January, but tax day is always closer than you think. For agricultural producers, staying on top of changes to the tax code is an important part of the job. Last year, twelve states enacted legislation amending different tax provisions that...
by Elizabeth | Jan 9, 2024 | Agricultural Foreign Investment Disclosure Act, Corporate Transparency Act, Finance and Credit, Focusing on Foreign Investment, Foreign Ownership, Land Ownership, Micah Brown, Taxation, Taxation, United States Department of Agriculture
As previously discussed, the Agricultural Foreign Investment Disclosure Act (“AFIDA”) (7 U.S.C. §§ 3501–3508) contains reporting requirements mandating that certain foreign and domestic entities disclose their interests in U.S. agricultural land to the U.S. Department...
by Ramie Parsons | Jan 5, 2024 | Monthly Round Up
December Roundup As December has ended, the staff at the National Agricultural Law Center continue to bring trusted research and information in agricultural and food law to stakeholders across the country. Outlined below are many of the new NALC resources from...
by Elizabeth | Dec 21, 2023 | Ag & Food Law Update, Animal Law, Antitrust, Clean Water Act, Commodity Programs, Conservation Programs, Corporate Transparency Act, Crop Insurance, Disaster Assistance Programs, Endangered Species Act, Environmental Protection Agency, Farm Bill, Farm Labor, Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act, Focusing on Foreign Investment, Foreign Ownership, Glyphosate, Hemp, Immigration, Labor, Land Ownership, Nutrition Programs, Packers and Stockyards Act, Pesticides, Prop 12, Right to Repair, United States Department of Agriculture, Water Law, Western Water, WOTUS Update
In the world of agricultural law, 2023 was a year for significant developments and changes. In summary below, attorneys at the National Agricultural Law Center have identified and compiled the top legal and policy developments that affected agriculture this year,...
by Emily Stone | Dec 19, 2023 | Emily Stone, Estate Planning, Land Ownership, Legal Issues with Land Trusts, Sustainable Agriculture, Taxation
As an interest in land conservation has grown among both the public and private sectors in the last decade, land trusts have become an increasingly popular avenue for encouraging and enforcing conservation practices. While there are various types of land trusts,...
by Ramie Parsons | Dec 15, 2023 | The Feed
The Feed newsletter highlights recent legal developments affecting agriculture, with issues released twice a month. Click below to sign up for The Feed, and also read the PDF for Vol. 1, Issue 23, from December 14, 2023. To sign up for The Feed, click here. Click here...
by Elizabeth | Dec 14, 2023 | Department of Labor, Fair Labor Standards Act, Farm Labor, Labor, Samantha Capaldo
Agriculture can be a hazardous occupation, and adding child workers into the equation can lead to even more dangerous situations. During 2023 alone, Michael Schuls, 16, died while working at a sawmill in Wisconsin, and Duvan Tomas Perez, 16, died after becoming...
by Elizabeth | Dec 12, 2023 | Foreign Ownership, Land Ownership, Micah Brown, Spotlighting State Restrictions on Foreign Land Investments
The Louisiana Constitution permits “[e]very person…the right to acquire, own, control, use,…private property.” La. Const. Ann. art. I, § 4. However, the state constitution authorizes the state legislature to enact “reasonable statutory restrictions” to this right. On...
by Brigit Rollins | Dec 7, 2023 | Brigit Rollins, Endangered Species Act, Environmental Law, Environmental Protection Agency, Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act, Pesticides
One June 22, 2023, the Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) released a draft white paper for its Vulnerable Species Pilot Project (“VSPP”), a central component of the agency’s new policy approach to meeting its Endangered Species Act (“ESA”) responsibilities when...
by Ramie Parsons | Dec 5, 2023 | Monthly Round Up
November Roundup As November has ended, the staff at the National Agricultural Law Center continue to bring trusted research and information in agricultural and food law to stakeholders across the country. Outlined below are many of the new NALC resources from...
by Emily Stone | Dec 5, 2023 | Ag & Food Law Update, Agricultural Marketing Service, Biotechnology, Emily Stone, Food Labeling, United States Department of Agriculture
Bioengineered (BE) foods is a familiar term that has created consumer confusion in the United States over the past few years. Though this term has become commonplace to see in the grocery store on the labels of popular foods, there tends to be a lot of consumer...
by Elizabeth | Dec 4, 2023 | Elizabeth Rumley, Procedure
By: NALC Senior Staff Attorney Elizabeth Rumley As a lawyer at the National Agricultural Law Center, I don’t represent clients. While I- and my colleagues- give presentations about legal issues across the country, we’re prohibited from giving legal advice specific to...
by Elizabeth | Nov 30, 2023 | Disaster Assistance Programs, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Samantha Capaldo
According to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (“FEMA”), only one inch of water in a property can cause more than $25,000 in damage. According to NOAA, in the past five years, there were eight one billion dollar or more flood disaster events causing...
by Ramie Parsons | Nov 30, 2023 | The Feed
The Feed newsletter highlights recent legal developments affecting agriculture, with issues released twice a month. Click below to sign up for The Feed, and also read the PDF for Vol. 1, Issue 22, from November 30, 2023. To sign up for The Feed, click here. Click here...
by Elizabeth | Nov 28, 2023 | Foreign Ownership, Land Ownership, Micah Brown, Spotlighting State Restrictions on Foreign Land Investments
The Louisiana Constitution permits “[e]very person…the right to acquire, own, control, use,…private property.” La. Const. Ann. art. I, § 4. However, the state constitution authorizes the state legislature to enact “reasonable statutory restrictions” to this right. On...
by Emily Stone | Nov 21, 2023 | Emily Stone, Food and Drug Administration, Food Labeling
On November 15, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) sent letters to two food and beverage trade associations and 12 nutrition influencers claiming that the groups failed to adequately disclose paid partnerships in social media posts. The FTC is a federal agency that...
