Save The Date:

The Third Annual Western Water, Ag and Environmental Law Conference will be held on:

June 19-20, 2025

Reno, Nevada

Peppermill Reno Resort

The agricultural industry in the western United States is uniquely impacted by changes and developments in state, federal, and international laws and policies. The Third Annual Western Water, Ag, & Environmental Law Conference provides relevant and timely legal research and information to attorneys, farm manager and rural appraisers, consultants, lenders, accountants, tax consultants, students, and other agricultural professionals involved in the western ag and food industries in the Western U.S.  The conference is an excellent networking opportunity, as well as a premiere legal education opportunity tailored to the ag industry.  The conference will be held June 19-20, 2025 at the Peppermill Resort Spa Casino and is available in-person as well as livestream. Block room rate available at the Peppermill.  If you have questions, please feel free to reach out to NALC Director Harrison Pittman at hmpittm@uark.edu.  12 hours of CE/CLE, including 2 hours of Ethics.

Registration and block room rate information will be open early January 2025.  Be sure to check back here for updated agenda and conference information. This year’s agenda currently includes:

  • Fourth Amendment and Agriculture: Warrantless Access to Ag & Private Rural Lands” (Robert Frommer and Joshua Windham, Institute for Justice)
  • Perspectives from State Departments of Agriculture (Dr. J.J. Goicoechea, Director, Nevada Department of Agriculture; Christy Clark, Director, Montana Department of Agriculture and President, Western Association of State Departments of Agriculture; Jeff Witte, Director/Secretary, New Mexico, Department of Agriculture; moderated by Wes Ward, Secretary, Arkansas Department of Agriculture and President, National Association of State Departments of Agriculture);
  • Ag, Food, & Federal and State Agency Deference in a Post-Chevron World (Caroline Lobdell, General Counsel & Chief Compliance Officer, Clean Water Services);
  • Update from the Potomac: Federal Legislative &  Regulatory Issues (speakers TBA);
  • Federal-Private Split Estate: Considerations for Living and Operating on Stock-Raising Homestead Act Lands (Katy DeVries Riker, Associate, Holland & Hart);
  • Water Banking and Leasing in the West: Practical Pointers and Pitfall (Alyssa A. Moir, Partner, K&L Gates; Ernest Conant, Counsel, Downey Brand; and TBA)
  • And other sessions finalized in near future.

Join us as we continue a tradition of fun, food and ag law!