by Elizabeth | Oct 17, 2013 | Ag & Food Law Update
Posted October 17, 2013 The government shutdown ended last night after Congress passed a continuing resolution to fund the government and President Obama signed the bill. In a statement this morning, President Obama said that one of his top priorities for the...
by Elizabeth | Oct 17, 2013 | Ag & Food Law Update, Animal Feeding Operations, Clean Water Act, Environmental Law, Environmental Protection Agency, Water Law
Posted October 17, 2013 A coalition of community, animal welfare, and environmental organizations has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) challenging the Agency’s withdrawal of a proposed rule that would have allowed the...
by Elizabeth | Oct 17, 2013 | Ag & Food Law Update
October 17, 2013 A panel discussion comparing large and small farms will be the focus of the Food Dialogues on October 24, Food Day, according to an AG Professional article, available here. The U.S. Farmers and Ranchers Alliance (USFRA) announced the moderator...
by Elizabeth | Oct 17, 2013 | Ag & Food Law Update
Posted October 17, 2013 Florida Commissioner of Agriculture Adam H. Putnam and the Florida Cabinet voted unanimously to approve additional aquaculture leases, primarily in Apalachicola Bay, according to a WMBB news story, available here. The Florida Department of...
by Elizabeth | Oct 16, 2013 | Ag & Food Law Update, Food Safety, Marketing Orders, United States Department of Agriculture
Posted October 16, 2013 While many agencies of the U.S. government have been shut down since October 1, food safety audits on leafy greens farm have continued through the California Leafy Greens Marketing Agreement (LGMA), according to a Western Farm Press article...
by Elizabeth | Oct 16, 2013 | Ag & Food Law Update, Agritourism, Business Organizations, Cottage Foods, Local Food Systems
Posted October 16, 2013 New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo welcomed 14 newly-licensed farm breweries that have opened as a result of legislation which took effect in January 2013, according to a press release from the Governor’s office available here. The “Farm...
by Elizabeth | Oct 16, 2013 | Ag & Food Law Update, Clean Water Act, Environmental Law, Environmental Protection Agency, Water Law
Posted October 16, 2013 Farm and commodity groups have announced they will appeal a recent district court judge’s decision to uphold federal pollution limits in the Chesapeake Bay area, the nation’s largest estuary, according to Marc Levy of the Associated Press in...
by Elizabeth | Oct 16, 2013 | Ag & Food Law Update, Cooperatives, Food Safety, Local Food Systems
Posted October 16, 2013 A recently enacted law defining Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) and establishing health and safety standards will level the playing field for CSA programs in California, according to an AgAlert article available here. Ryan Casey, a...
by Elizabeth | Oct 15, 2013 | Ag & Food Law Update, Animal Law, Animal Welfare, Continuing Education
Posted October 15, 2013 Animal law will be prominently featured at the upcoming 34th Annual Conference of the American Agricultural Law Association, the nation’s only professional organization serving the legal needs of agriculture. This year’s conference will be...
by Elizabeth | Oct 15, 2013 | Ag & Food Law Update, Food Labeling
Posted October 15, 2013 In Simpson v. Kroger Corp. et al., No. B242405, 2013 WL 5347881, Cal. Ct. App. (September 25, 2013), the California Court of Appeals affirmed the dismissal of a consumer class action at the pleadings stage against Challenge Dairy Inc. and...
by Elizabeth | Oct 15, 2013 | Ag & Food Law Update
Posted October 15, 2013 Jerry Hagstrom reported that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) recently proposed that the farm bill could be part of a larger package, according to a National Journal article, available here. In a letter to House Speaker John Boehner...
by Elizabeth | Oct 14, 2013 | Ag & Food Law Update, Food and Drug Administration, Food Safety
Posted October 14, 2013 Federal prosecutors have filed criminal charges against Eric Jensen and Ryan Jensen, the two brothers who owned and operated a Colorado farm tied to the 2011 Listeria cantaloupe outbreak that killed 33 and sickened 147, according to press...
by Elizabeth | Oct 14, 2013 | Ag & Food Law Update
Posted October 14, 2013 On Saturday, House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) named farm bill conferees, and will now move forward to conference with the Senate, according to an Agri-Pulse article available here. The House...
by Elizabeth | Oct 11, 2013 | Ag & Food Law Update, Country of Origin Labeling, NALC Resources, Webinar
Posted October 11, 2013 On November 14, 12-1 (CDT),the National Agricultural Law Center is hosting a webinar titled, COOL Or Not So COOL?: Overview and Discussion of Country of Origin Labeling. The presenters will be J. Dudley Butler, Farm and Ranch Law...
by Elizabeth | Oct 11, 2013 | Ag & Food Law Update
October 11, 2013 What is biotechnology? A uniformly accepted definition of “biotechnology” does not exist. In broad terms, it is the use of biological sciences to develop products, conventional plant and animal breeding techniques, conducted since the beginning of...
by Elizabeth | Oct 11, 2013 | Ag & Food Law Update, Biotechnology, Food Labeling
October 11, 2013 Natural foods manufacturer, NOW Foods, has committed to make its entire food line non-genetically modified (GMO) by the end of 2013, according to an article by Food-Navigator, available here. NOW Foods, a company based in Bloomington, IL,...
by Elizabeth | Oct 11, 2013 | Ag & Food Law Update, Biotechnology, Crop Insurance
October 11, 2013 In one of the largest buys of a data analytics company, Monsanto has agreed to buy the Climate Corp. for $930 million, according to a Bloomberg Businessweek article, available here. Climate Corp. is a data analytics company, founded in 2006 as...
by Elizabeth | Oct 10, 2013 | Ag & Food Law Update
Posted October 10, 2013 House GOP leaders will appoint farm bill conferees in the next week, according to U.S. Representative Kristi Noem (R-SD), member of the House Agriculture Committee. A press release from Rep. Noem’s office is available here. Noem said that...
by Elizabeth | Oct 10, 2013 | Ag & Food Law Update
Posted October 10, 2013 In Frenchman Cambridge Irr. Dist. V. Heineman, No. 8:12CV445, 2013 WL 5367353 (D.D.C. September 24, 2013), the United States District Court for the District of Columbia dismissed the lawsuit, holding that it did not have subject matter...
by Elizabeth | Oct 10, 2013 | Ag & Food Law Update, Country of Origin Labeling, United States Department of Agriculture
October 10, 2013 The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia granted four groups’ motion to intervene in a lawsuit involving country of origin labeling (COOL) rules, American Meat Industry, et al. v. U.S. Department of Agriculture, according to an article...
