by Elizabeth | Mar 7, 2014 | Ag & Food Law Update
March 7, 2014 The Arkansas Women in Agriculture Conference will be held on March 13-14, 2014 at the Wyndham Riverfront Hotel in North Little Rock, Arkansas. Additional information on the conference is available here. On Thursday, the conference will feature...
by Elizabeth | Mar 7, 2014 | Ag & Food Law Update, Food and Drug Administration, Food Labeling
Posted March 7, 2014 The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is reopening the comment period on its draft guidance for industry on declaring “evaporated cane juice” as an ingredient on food labels, according to an FDA Constituent Update available here. The...
by Elizabeth | Mar 7, 2014 | Ag & Food Law Update, Cooperatives
Posted March 7, 2014 U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), Chairwoman of the U.S. Senate Agriculture Committee, recently announced the introduction of a resolution commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Smith-Lever Act, which established the Cooperative Extension...
by Elizabeth | Mar 7, 2014 | Ag & Food Law Update, Environmental Law
Posted March 7, 2014 South Carolina may be the next state to allow alligator farms, according to an article by the Post and Courier available here. The bill, S.714, unanimously passed by the Senate’s Fish, Game, and Forestry Committee, will now move for...
by Elizabeth | Mar 6, 2014 | Ag & Food Law Update, Biofuels, Crop Insurance, Nutrition Programs, Renewable Energy, United States Department of Agriculture
Posted March 6, 2014 Tuesday, the White House proposed almost $24 billion in discretionary spending for the U.S. Agriculture Department in its fiscal year 2015 budget proposal, $2.5 billion less than the previous year, according to an article by the Des Moines...
