by Elizabeth | Apr 18, 2016 | Ag & Food Law Update
Last week, U.S. Senator Jerry Moran (R-Kan.), a member of the Senate Appropriations Agriculture Subcommittee, and U.S. Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) introduced the Agriculture Students Encourage, Acknowledge, Reward, Nurture (EARN) Act, that will amend the tax code to...
by Elizabeth | Apr 15, 2016 | Ag & Food Law Update, Farm Labor, Food Safety, Labor
Representatives from the International Brotherhood of Teamsters protested outside a Chipotle Mexican Grill in San Jose, CA, earlier this week. However, the protest was not in response to the restaurant’s food safety practices. Their target is salad processing company...
by Elizabeth | Apr 14, 2016 | Ag & Food Law Update
Earlier this week, members of the Arkansas agribusiness community, including academic and political leaders, launched the Arkansas State Council for Engage Cuba. The council plans to boost the state’s agricultural economy and is similar to others groups formed in...
by Elizabeth | Apr 14, 2016 | Ag & Food Law Update
The latest installment of the Penn State Center for Agricultural and Shale Law’s Agricultural Law Weekly Review is now available. Topics covered include: production requirements for organic livestock and poultry, proposed revisions to pipeline safety rules, amended...
by Elizabeth | Apr 13, 2016 | Ag & Food Law Update, Endangered Species Act, Environmental Law, Fish and Wildlife Service
A new lawsuit claims that crops genetically engineered to withstand glyphosate herbicides is responsible for the decline of monarch butterflies. As detailed in a press release last month, the Center for Food Safety and the Center for Biological Diversity filed suit...
