by Elizabeth | Jul 19, 2013 | Ag & Food Law Update, Right to Farm, Urban Encroachment
Posted: July 19, 2013 The topic of nuisance and right to farm statutes has been red hot over the past couple of years, including a very recent legislative development in North Carolina. In addition, several states, such as Missouri, have updated their right to farm...
by Elizabeth | Jul 1, 2013 | Ag & Food Law Update
Posted: July 1, 2013 The 34th Annual Conference of the American Agricultural Law Association will be held October 31 – November 2, 2013 at the Concourse Hotel in Madison, Wisconsin. The AALA annual conference is an excellent opportunity for students,...
by Elizabeth | Jun 24, 2013 | Ag & Food Law Update
Posted: June 24, 2013 In the wake of last week’s stunning rejection of the farm bill in the U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has stated that “the Senate will not pass another temporary farm bill extension.” A...
by Elizabeth | Jun 11, 2013 | Administrative Law, Ag & Food Law Update, Agricultural Marketing Service, Marketing Orders, United States Department of Agriculture
Posted: June 11, 2013 In action involving a constitutional challenge to the California Raisin Marketing Order under the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937(AMAA), 7 U.S.C. §§ 701-714, §§ 671-674 Horne v. United States Dep’t of Agric., No. 12-123, 2013 WL...
by Elizabeth | Jun 7, 2013 | Ag & Food Law Update
Posted: June 7, 2013 In Mingo Logan Coal Co. v. U.S. E.P.A., 714 F.3d 608, the United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit, held that the EPA had authority under Clean Water Act to withdraw a §404 disposal site specification permit issued...
by Elizabeth | Jun 6, 2013 | Ag & Food Law Update
Posted: June 6, 2013 In Bartlett v. United States Dep’t of Agric., No. 12-3087,2013 WL 2420501 (8thCir. June 5, 2013), the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit affirmed a federal district court decision to dismiss an action brought by more than three...
by Elizabeth | May 13, 2013 | Ag & Food Law Update
Posted: May 13, 2013 On Monday, May 13, the United States Supreme Court issued its ruling in Bowman v. Monsanto Co., et al., decision that will reverberate throughout the continued debate over the role of genetically modified organisms in agriculture. The Court...
by Elizabeth | May 7, 2013 | Ag & Food Law Update, Farm Bill
Senator Debbie Stabenow, Chairwoman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, will convene a meeting of the full Committee for purposes of considering and marking up the 2013 Farm Bill on Tuesday, May 14 at 10 a.m. in the Committee’s hearing...
by Elizabeth | May 1, 2013 | Ag & Food Law Update, Agritourism, Landowner Liability
As the legislative sessions for many states are wrapping up, three states have recently passed agritourism statutes designed to reduce help reduce some of the legal liability surrounding so-called “inherent risks” of agritourism operations. Oklahoma, Idaho and...
by Elizabeth | Apr 26, 2013 | Ag & Food Law Update, Business Organizations, NALC Resources, Webinar
On Monday, May 6, 2013 at 10 a.m. Mountain/11 Central the National Agricultural Law Center is hosting a webinar in partnership with American Agri-Women, the national coalition of farm, ranch, and agribusiness women’s organizations. There is no charge for the...
by Elizabeth | Apr 4, 2013 | Ag & Food Law Update
Reuters reports that the Environmental Protection Agency has named thirty-one experts to review an upcoming report on “fracking,” the term used to describe the extraction of natural gas and oil. For a link to the Reuters news story, click here. For additional...
by Elizabeth | Mar 25, 2013 | Ag & Food Law Update
The USDA has extended the filing deadline for the USDA Hispanic and Women Farmers and Ranchers Claims Process to May 1, 2013. In the USDA press release, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack stated: Hispanic and women farmers who believe they have faced discriminatory...
by Elizabeth | Mar 5, 2013 | Ag & Food Law Update
Judge Brian S. Miller, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas, has dismissed with prejudice a lawsuit brought by several rice farmers against several poultry companies, specifically including Tyson Foods, Inc., Simmons Food, Inc.,...
by Elizabeth | Mar 1, 2013 | Ag & Food Law Update
Monsanto, Co. has announced its plans to file an appeal of a recent ruling over a patent correction covering its Ready Roundup soybean product, RR1. The ruling was made by a judge of the Brazilian Superior Court of Justice. In a press release issued in late February,...
by Elizabeth | Feb 28, 2013 | Ag & Food Law Update
On March 6, from 12-1 p.m. (Central), the Arkansas Bar Association will host a webinar covering state and federal law water issues. The focus of the presentation will be on issues relevant to Arkansas. In every region of the state, issues involving water law are...
by Elizabeth | Feb 15, 2013 | Ag & Food Law Update
Senator Debbie Stabenow, (D-Mich.), Chairwoman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, will convene a Committee hearing, “Oversight of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission”, on Wednesday, February 27 at 2:30 p.m. EST. The...
by Elizabeth | Feb 14, 2013 | Ag & Food Law Update
Senator Debbie Stabenow, Chairwoman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, issued the following statement today regarding the announcement by Senate Democratic leadership that agriculture’s direct payment subsidies will be...
by Elizabeth | Feb 14, 2013 | Ag & Food Law Update
The final subcommittee assignments for the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry have been announced by Chairwoman Stabenow and Ranking Member Cochran. The subcommittee assignments are as follows: Subcommittee on Commodities, Markets, Trade and Risk...
by Elizabeth | Feb 13, 2013 | Ag & Food Law Update
On February 8, U.S. Senators Roger Wicker and Thad Cochran issued a letter stating that catfish producers in Mississippi and other states are being damaged by the U.S. Department of Commerce not putting enough effort into stemming a surplus of imported fish products....
by Elizabeth | Feb 13, 2013 | Ag & Food Law Update, Federal Meat Inspection Act, Food Safety, Food Safety and Inspection Service, Poultry Products Inspection Act, United States Department of Agriculture
In a February 8 article, Reuters reported on the Obama Administration warning that sequestration cuts currently scheduled for March 1 “may result in furloughing every U.S. meat and poultry inspector for two weeks, causing the meat industry to shut down.” ...
