A comprehensive summary of today’s judicial, legislative, and regulatory developments in agriculture and food. Email important additions HERE.
REGULATORY: AMS, APHIS, FS
Agricultural Marketing Service
Notice reopening the voting period for the referendum being conducted among eligible growers of pecans grown in the states of Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi, North Carolina, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Texas to determine whether they favor continuance of the marketing order regulating the handling of pecans produced in the production area. Info here.
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
Notice advising the public that APHIS has added Malaysia to the list of regions that the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service considers to be affected with African swine fever. Info here.
Forest Service
Notice that the Forest Service is seeking comments from all interested individuals and organizations on the renewal of a currently approved information collection, Pesticide-Use Proposal. Info here.
LEGISLATIVE: Includes Florida
FLORIDA
HB 633 provides increases the annual gross sales limitation for exempting cottage food operations from certain food and building permitting requirements, authorizes the sale, offer for sale, and delivery of cottage food products by mail, and prohibiting local governments from prohibiting cottage food operations or regulating cottage food products by cottage food operations. Info here.
LEGISLATIVE: Includes Florida
FLORIDA
SB 896 provides that solar facilities are a permitted use in local government comprehensive plan agricultural land use categories and certain agricultural zoning districts. Info here.
LEGISLATIVE: Includes Colorado
COLORADO
HB 21-1181 creates a state soil health program within the state’s Department of Agriculture which will provide a system for monitoring the environmental or economic benefits of soil health practices, a soil health testing program, among other things. Info here.
LEGISLATIVE: Includes Colorado
COLORADO
HB 21-1045 creates an emergency invasive-pest response fund and permits the state’s Commissioner of Agriculture to expend money from the fund to implement emergency measures to control or eradicate invasive pests. Info here.
LEGISLATIVE: Includes Tennessee
TENNESSEE
HB 830 requires a manufacturer, under certain circumstances, to replace farm machinery with comparable farm machinery or accept return of the farm machinery and refund the full purchase price and related repair costs, less a reasonable allowance for use and a reasonable offset for physical damage. Info here.