by Elizabeth | Mar 1, 2012 | Ag & Food Law Update
United Egg Producers (UEP) President and CEO, Gene Gregory, advocates an amendment to the current Farm Bill. The amendment, Egg Products Inspection Act Amendments of 2012 (H.R. 3798), reasons that eggs are a commodity and hopes to accommodate producers who move eggs...
by Elizabeth | Feb 29, 2012 | Ag & Food Law Update, Land Use Regulation, Landowner Liability, NALC Resources, Webinar
On Thursday, March 1, 2012 at 11:30 a.m. (Central) a free, producer-oriented webinar will be offered that focuses on landowner liability issues associated with the recreational use of land. The webinar is part of a multi-workshop series of online workshops conducted...
by Elizabeth | Feb 13, 2012 | Ag & Food Law Update, Agritourism, Animal Law, Environmental Law, Forestry, Landowner Liability, Leases
The National Agricultural Law Center, along with the University of Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service and the LSU AgCenter are hosting a series of three workshops dealing with legal, marketing, and business issues that affect forest landowners. Topics discussed at...
by Elizabeth | Feb 4, 2012 | Ag & Food Law Update, Department of Labor, Farm Labor, Labor
Agri-Pulse reports that Department of Labor will “re-propose the parental exception” of the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking. For full Agri-Pulse story, click here. According to the article, “[m]embers of Congress, farm owners, and other agricultural...
by Elizabeth | Feb 3, 2012 | Ag & Food Law Update
The Associated Press announced that the FDA has confirmed the presence of an illegal fungicide in domestic orange juice samples, but that the juice remains safe to drink. “The FDA said that nine of 14 samples taken from large holding tanks of juice in Florida tested...
