Roundup

As October has ended, the staff at the National Agricultural Law Center continue to bring trusted research and information in agricultural and food law to stakeholders across the country. Outlined below are many of the new NALC resources from October 2024.

Blog Posts

• Focusing on Foreign Investments: Congress Aims to Add Agriculture to CFIUS
• Pittman testifies on ag research, technology at U.S. Senate hearing
• Food Labeling: The Regulation of Food Allergen Labels
• EPA Releases Vulnerable Species Action Plan
• NALC webinar will review liability challenges for equine, agritourism business owners
• Focusing on Foreign Investments: Congressional Considerations on Evaluating Foreign Acquisitions in U.S. Agriculture
• Date Labels and the New California Law
• NALC webinar emphasizes importance of limiting liability for agritourism, equine operations
• NALC Webinar Series: A look at recent presentations and what’s on the horizon
• WOTUS Update: Judge Recommends Resolving CWA Dispute in Favor of Landowner Following Sackett Decision
• Deadline approaches for business owners to comply with Corporate Transparency Act
• National Ag Law Center sets dates for 2025 conferences
• Community Supported Agriculture: A Field Guide for Producers and Consumers (Intro)
• Fourth Amendment, warrantless search of ag lands on the agenda at 2025 Western Conference

The Feed

• Volume 2, Issue 19
• Volume 2, Issue 20

Webinars

• October 2 – Growing Careers in Ag & Food Law: USDA Deputy Secretary Xochitl Torres Small
• October 16 – Equine Activity & Agritourism Statutes: Strategies for Risk Management

NALC Outreach

• Harrison Pittman, NALC Director
  • October 1 – In-person presentation on the ag industry post-Chevron at the Agribusiness Association Administrators meeting in New Orleans, LA
  • October 2 – In-person presentation on the ag industry post-Chevron at the 2024 Barnes & Thornburg Fall Harvest Conference in Indianapolis, IN
  • October 20 – In-person meeting with Congressional staffers to discuss NALC in Fayetteville, AR
  • October 23 – In-person presentation titled “Agriculture, Finance, and Risks Related to Crops and Climate” at the National Science Foundation CORE Workshop at University of California, San Diego.
• Rusty Rumley, Senior Staff Attorney
  • • October 3 – Online overview of the Rancher’s Ag Leasing Handbook for the 14th Annual Cooperative Extension Program’s Landowners Conference.
    • October 9 – In-person presentation on business entities, zoning, and landowner liability/agritourism statutes at Urban Armed to Farm in New Orleans, LA
    • October 15 – Phone interview with KFRE (Lubbock, TX) on Armed to Farm and call in questions
    • October 20 – In-person meeting with Congressional staffers to discuss NALC in Fayetteville, AR
    • October 31 – In-person presentation on business entities, zoning, and landowner liability/agritourism statutes at Armed to Farm in Fayetteville, AR
• Elizabeth Rumley, Senior Staff Attorney
  • October 20 – In-person meeting with Congressional staffers to discuss NALC in Fayetteville, AR
• Brigit Rollins, Staff Attorney
  • October 2 – Online presentation for Illinois Soy titled “EPA’s Herbicide Strategy Unveiled”
  • October 8 – Online presentation for Western Growers on the ESA, pesticides, and the Monarch butterfly
  • October 18 – Online presentation for Midwest Soybean Collective on the ESA and the Monarch butterfly
  • October 20 – In-person meeting with Congressional staffers to discuss NALC in Fayetteville, AR
• Emily Stone, Staff Attorney
  • October 20 – In-person meeting with Congressional staffers to discuss NALC in Fayetteville, AR
  • October 24 – In-person meeting with the University of Arkansas Food & Ag Law Society to introduce the Center as a research resource.
  • October 30 – In-person presentation on the center at Ag Career Day in Conway County

NALC Media Mentions

• October 1 – AgNet West Radio Network – Potential Changes from Overturning the Chevron Doctrine
• October 8 – Magnolia Banner-News – NALC webinar will review liability challenges for equine, agritourism business owners
• October 8 – Pine Bluff Commercial – Community Briefs Oct. 8
• October 18 – Kearney Hub – Filet or fake? Proposed rules on lab-grown meat would help Nebraska shoppers know
• October 21 – Stuttgart Daily Leader – NALC webinar emphasizes importance of limiting liability for agritourism, equine operations
• October 22 – Minnesota Star Tribune – Little oversight in Minnesota for haunted hayrides, other Halloween crowd-pleasers
• October 22 – Farm Progress – Can Agrivoltaics help solar energy and agriculture co-exist?
• October 24 – Pine Bluff Commercial – Community Briefs Oct. 24
• October 24 – North Dakota Law – Regan O’Donnell ’25 is this month’s American Agricultural Law Association’s Featured Member
• October 24 – Stuttgart Daily Leader – Deadline approaches for business owners to comply with Corporate Transparency Act
• October 26 – Newton County Times – Deadline approaches for business owners to comply with Corporate Transparency Act
• October 26 – WREG.com – State alien land laws drive some China-born US citizens to rethink their politics
• October 27 – WFMJ.com – State alien land laws drive some China-born US citizens to rethink their politics
• October 27 – MSN – Stalled Farm Bill could see Conservation Title changes
• October 27 – Magnolia Reporter – NALC webinar emphasizes importance of limiting liability for agritourism, equine operations
• October 28 – Stuttgart Daily Leader – National Ag Law Center sets dates for 2025 conferences
• October 28 – Magnolia Reporter – Deadline approaches for business owners to comply with Corporate Transparency Act
• October 31 – Arkansas Times – Trichinosis or treat: Liability laws for pumpkin patches and agritourism a mixed bag