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Center for Agricultural and Shale Law Posts Agricultural Law Weekly Review

The latest installment of the Penn State Center for Agricultural and Shale Law’s Agricultural Law Weekly Review is now available. Topics covered include: DOJ sues to prevent Deere’s acquisition of Precision Planting, California bill could require overtime for agricultural workers, HPAI discovered in Alaska, PA extends permit for point source discharges, FSIS requests extension of ...

Sep. 1, 2016

By The National Agricultural Law Center (NALC)

Webinar will address advantages and limitations of LLCs in agriculture

On Wednesday, August 16, at 12 noon (ET), the Agricultural & Food Law Consortium presents a free webinar, “Using LLCs in Agriculture: Beyond Liability Protection.” Since every state statutorily authorized the Limited Liability Company (LLC) as a business structure, the LLC has become a popular entity choice for farm businesses. But while often touted as a silver bullet for ...

Aug. 1, 2017

By The National Agricultural Law Center (NALC)

The Ag & Food Law Update: September 12, 2016

JUDICIAL: Includes labeling, AWA, AMAA, and dog law issues. Zapata Fonseca v. Goya Foods Inc., No. 16-CV-02559-LHK, 2016 WL 4698942 (N.D. Cal. Sept. 8, 2016) plaintiff filed class action after defendant sold four products labeled as “octopus.” Plaintiff argued products were squid instead of octopus, and that defendant “intentionally replaced the octopus with squid to save money ...

Sep. 12, 2016

By The National Agricultural Law Center (NALC)

Webinar will address contracting in agriculture

A significant portion of livestock, poultry and other crops are raised under production contracts. However, these contracts and their impact on the future of a farm can be difficult to understand. On Wednesday, May 31, Neil Hamilton, Emeritus Director of the Drake University Agricultural Law Center, will present a free webinar designed to help farmers, advocates, and law students understand ...

May 18, 2017

By The National Agricultural Law Center (NALC)

Ohio State Partners to Create New Agricultural and Food Law Consortium

Ohio State University Extension’s Agricultural and Resource Law program has partnered with a group of universities in the creation of a new Agricultural and Food Law Consortium that will work to research regional and national agricultural law issues. The consortium is part of and led by the National Agricultural Law Center, which is a unit of the University of Arkansas System Division of ...

Oct. 14, 2014

By Ohio State University

Upcoming webinar will focus on legal issues with pesticides

Pesticide use and subsequent damage to neighboring crops is an ongoing problem for producers across the country this year. For example, farmers in Arkansas, Missouri and Illinois have sued biotech companies specifically over dicamba damage. (The dicamba herbicide is used to control weeds in genetically modified cotton and soybeans). The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently intervened ...

Oct. 21, 2017

By The National Agricultural Law Center (NALC)

Senate Ag leaders commit to Bipartisan Farm Bill

U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Chairman Pat Roberts, R-Kan., and Ranking Member Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., today released the following statement after the House Agriculture Committee released its version of the 2018 Farm Bill. “We continue to be committed to working on a Farm Bill for all farmers and families. With low commodity prices, worsening conditions ...

Apr. 12, 2018

By U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition & Forestry

Ohio State Webinar Series Addresses Food, Agricultural and Environmental Law Issues

As the use of unmanned aerial vehicles becomes more prevalent in agriculture, understanding the laws and regulations on the use of such devices is paramount, experts say. To help provide guidance and understanding of the legal issues surrounding UAVs, Ohio State University Extension’s Agricultural and Resource Law program will discuss the topic in the first of a series of free webinars ...

Dec. 3, 2014

By Ohio State University

Agriculture committee opposes national bans on Imports of GM food and feed

The agriculture committee on Thursday rejected the Commission's draft law that would give member states the power to restrict or prohibit the use of EU-approved GM food or feed on their territory. It fears that arbitrary national bans could distort competition on the EU's single market and jeopardise the Union's food production sectors which are heavily dependent on imports of GM feed. The ...

Sep. 3, 2015

By European Parliament

Farm bill takes aim at state animal welfare laws

The future of state laws that regulate everything from the size of a hen's cage to the safe consumption of Gulf oysters may be at stake as farm bill negotiators work to resolve a long-simmering fight between agriculture and animal welfare interests. The House Agriculture Committee added language to its version of the farm bill earlier this year that says a state cannot impose certain ...

Nov. 19, 2013

By Associated Press

Empowering women in agriculture

Reducing gender inequality is fundamental to eliminating hunger and developing more sustainable food systems, FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva told international experts and country representatives at an International Women’s Day event in Rome. “This year we are celebrating Women’s Day against the backdrop of the International Year of Family Farming,” ...

Mar. 7, 2014

By Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Brazilian Monitoring and Law Enforcement Prevented over 59,500 sq. km of Amazon Deforestation

Brazil's efforts to better monitor forest clearings and enforce laws prevented the clearing of over 59,500 km2 of Amazon forest area from 2007 through 2011, according to a new study by Climate Policy Initiative (CPI), DETERring Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. Deforestation observed during this period totaled 41,500 km2 – 59% less than would have occurred in the absence of the policy ...

May 8, 2013

By Climate Policy Initiative

Agriculture Industry Seeks to Create Right to Farm

In the nation's agricultural heartland, farming is more than a multibillion-dollar industry that feeds the world. It could be on track to become a right, written into law alongside the freedom of speech and religion. Some powerful agriculture interests want to declare farming a right at the state level as part of a wider campaign to fortify the ag industry against crusades by animal-welfare ...

Jul. 10, 2014

By Associated Press

Raising the debt Limit: How Chapter 12 bankruptcy saves family farms

The Senate on Thursday passed the Family Farmer Relief Act, a bill that raises the amount of debt that farmers interested in filing for Chapter 12 bankruptcy can hold. Right now, the debt cap is approximately $4.2 million, and this proposed law will raise it to $10 million. The bill has now moved to President Trump’s desk for his signature. Chapter 12 is reorganization bankruptcy for ...

Aug. 2, 2019

By The National Agricultural Law Center (NALC)

EPA approves uses of weed killer Dicamba

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) granted a conditional registration for new uses of the herbicide dicamba, a Monsanto “agrochemical,” on genetically engineered (GE) cotton and GE soybean. In a Final Registration document issued yesterday, the EPA discussed a number of considerations for the approval, including discussions of human health and environmental risks, along with ...

Nov. 10, 2016

By The National Agricultural Law Center (NALC)

Maryland confronts overuse of antibiotics on farms

A new law in Maryland will prohibit the routine use of antibiotics on animals that are not sick, a procedure health experts believe helps spread drug resistant bacteria. The Keep Antibiotics Effective Act will also require the Department of Agriculture to collect publicly available data on use of antimicrobial drugs in the state. Maryland joins California as the second state confronting ...

May 31, 2017

By The National Agricultural Law Center (NALC)

Peru wavers on ten-year halt to GM imports

A ten-year moratorium on the entry of genetically modified organisms (GMOs), approved by Peru's Congress last month, has been thrown into question by a decision by the country's Executive to return the bill for further debate. The outgoing president, Alan García, and his ministers, who make up the Executive, say that the moratorium would jeopardise research and shift responsibility for ...

Jul. 13, 2011

By SciDev.Net

Ag Attorney Sheds Light on Manure Handling, Application Regulations

Although the Lake Erie algae problems that contaminated Toledo’s water supply in early August have subsided, the crisis raised questions about animal manure application on farmland in Ohio and how it may have contributed to the problem. In response, Ohio State University Extension’s agricultural and resource law field specialist has written a summary of Ohio laws relating to ...

Sep. 30, 2014

By Ohio State University

Containing animal disease outbreaks: agriculture MEPs endorse deal with Council

Measures to prevent and halt outbreaks of animal diseases such as avian flu or African swine fever, informally agreed by MEPs and the Council in June 2015, were backed by the Agriculture Committee on Tuesday. The draft EU law, on diseases that are transmissible among animals and potentially to humans too, will put more emphasis on prevention and help keep pace with scientific progress. "The ...

Feb. 23, 2016

By European Parliament

Drones on the Farm: What Are the Laws?

– popularity, before you launch a drone over your crops to gauge field conditions, be aware that doing so could result in a hefty fine from the Federal Aviation Administration. So says Peggy Hall, assistant professor and Ohio State University Extension field specialist in agricultural and resource law. Hall said that while the technology is available for farmers and growers to utilize ...

Aug. 19, 2014

By Ohio State University

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