by Ramie Parsons | Aug 28, 2025 | 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. 3, Issue 16, from August 28, 2025. To sign up for The Feed, click here. Click here...
by Brigit Rollins | Aug 26, 2025 | Animal Feeding Operations, Brigit Rollins, Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA), Environmental Protection Agency
On August 7, 2025, a federal court in the District of Columbia issued an order to resolve a lawsuit originally filed by environmental groups in 2018 to challenge a final rule issued by the Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) that same year which clarified that air...
by Emily Stone | Aug 21, 2025 | Emily Stone, Food and Drug Administration, Food Foundations, Food Labeling, Food Safety and Inspection Service, United States Department of Agriculture
On July 16, 2025, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that it was revoking and proposing to revoke 52 food standards. The FDA has regulatory “standards of identity” (SOI) for certain foods to ensure that the “characteristics, ingredients, and...
by Ramie Parsons | Aug 14, 2025 | 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. 3, Issue 15, from August 14, 2025. To sign up for The Feed, click here. Click here...
by Ramie Parsons | Aug 13, 2025 | Ag & Food Law Update, Agencies, Department of Labor, Farm Labor, Labor, NALC Resources, NALC Staff, News Release, Webinar
National Agricultural Law Center U of A System Division of Agriculture August 13, 2025 Fast facts: Aug. 20 NALC webinar will focus on labor law topics Webinar is Q&A-style with ag attorney William Mencer Registration is no cost online FAYETTEVILLE, Ark.–...
by Brigit Rollins | Aug 12, 2025 | Brigit Rollins, Endangered Species Act, Environmental Law, Environmental Protection Agency, Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act, Pesticides, The Deal with Dicamba
In late July 2025, the Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) announced that it had opened a public comment period on its proposal to register three dicamba-based pesticide products for use directly on dicamba-tolerant soybean and cotton seeds. No dicamba pesticide...
by Emily Stone | Aug 5, 2025 | Ag & Food Law Update, Emily Stone, Food and Drug Administration, Food Foundations, Food Safety, Food Safety Modernization Act
In the first half of 2025, there have already been eight reported Food and Drug Administration (FDA) investigations stemming from foodborne illness outbreaks. This is already a significant increase from the yearly total of ten investigations in 2024 and nine...
by Ramie Parsons | Aug 1, 2025 | Monthly Round Up
Roundup As July 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 July 2025. Blog...
by Ramie Parsons | Jul 31, 2025 | Ag & Food Law Update, Agricultural Foreign Investment Disclosure Act, Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. (CFIUS), Foreign Ownership, Land Ownership, NALC Staff, United States Department of Agriculture
by NALC staff On June 23, 2025, the House passed the Agricultural Risk Review Act (H.R. 1713) which seeks to increase governmental oversight of certain foreign acquisitions in U.S. agriculture, particularly in farmland. Specifically, this measure seeks to amend...
by Brigit Rollins | Jul 29, 2025 | Brigit Rollins, Environmental Law, National Environmental Policy Act
In late May 2025, the United States Supreme Court issued its decision in Seven Cty. Infrastructure Coal. v. Eagle Cty., No. 23-975 (2025), a lawsuit concerning the scope of review under the National Environmental Policy Act (“NEPA”). In its decision, the Court...
by Ramie Parsons | Jul 24, 2025 | 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. 3, Issue 14, from July 24, 2025. To sign up for The Feed, click here. Click here to...
by Brigit Rollins | Jul 24, 2025 | Ag & Food Law Update, Brigit Rollins, Carbon, Conservation Programs, Environmental Law, Estate Planning, Farm Bill, Farm Labor, Land Use Regulation, Taxation, Taxation, Water Law
On July 4, 2025, President Trump formally signed the multi-billion-dollar reconciliation bill titled the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (“OBBBA”) into law. The new law includes several provisions typically associated with the Farm Bill, the omnibus spending bill that...
by Emily Stone | Jul 21, 2025 | Ag & Food Law Update, Emily Stone, Food and Nutrition Service, Nutrition Programs
On July 4, 2025, President Trump signed an omnibus appropriations bill into law that funded the federal government for the remainder of Fiscal Year 2025. It has been informally referred to as the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” or “OBBBA.” This legislation passed...
by Ramie Parsons | Jul 17, 2025 | Animal Law, Animal Welfare, Elizabeth Rumley, United States Department of Agriculture
by NALC Senior Staff Attorney Elizabeth Rumley Last week, the Trump administration reignited the legal fight over farm animal confinement laws, filing a new lawsuit challenging those in place in California. The complaint, filed by the Department of Justice (DOJ) in...
by Emily Stone | Jul 15, 2025 | 'MAHA' Movement, Emily Stone, Food and Drug Administration, Food Labeling, Food Safety
Over the past month, Texas and Louisiana both enacted first-in-the-nation legislation that created specific labeling requirements for food products that contain certain ingredients. For both of these proposals, the food labeling provision was but one of a broad set of...
by Elizabeth | Jul 11, 2025 | Ag & Food Law Update, Agricultural Foreign Investment Disclosure Act, Farm Service Agency, Foreign Ownership, Forestry, Land Ownership, Land Use Regulation, NALC Resources, NALC Staff, News Release, Statutes, United States Department of Agriculture
By Drew Viguet National Agricultural Law Center U of A System Division of Agriculture July 11, 2025 Fast facts: National Ag Law Center Director Pittman interviewed on C-SPAN Interview covered latest developments in foreign investment of U.S. land Recording is...
by Elizabeth | Jul 10, 2025 | 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. 3, Issue 12, from July 10, 2025. To sign up for The Feed, click here. Click here to...
by Elizabeth | Jul 9, 2025 | Quarterly Newsletter
The National Agricultural Law Center compiles and publishes a quarterly newsletter highlighting recent and upcoming events and resources. The newsletter for the second quarter of 2025 is available here. To sign up for future newsletters, click here....
by Elizabeth | Jul 9, 2025 | Ag & Food Law Update, Continuing Education, NALC Resources, NALC Staff, News Release
By Drew Viguet, NALC Communications & Special Projects Coordinator The National Agricultural Law Center (NALC) has concluded its 2025 conferences: the 12th Annual Mid-South Agricultural and Environmental Law Conference and the 3rd Annual Western Water,...
by Ramie Parsons | Jul 8, 2025 | Corporate Farming, Foreign Ownership, Land Ownership, NALC Staff
by NALC staff On June 20, 2025, Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed into law Senate Bill 17 (“SB 17”), which restricts certain foreign purchases of real property located within the state. Prior to this measure, Texas law did not contain any restriction on...
