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Agricultural Law Podcast

Dec 23, 2020

Pennsylvania’s Milk Marketing Board negotiated a nationwide solution to the preference payment claims demanded by the Dean Foods bankruptcy estate and the U.S. Office of Trade Representative filed its first USMCA enforcement action against Canada.  Also, a federal district court reduced the punitive damages in the...


Dec 8, 2020

American Farm Bureau Federation issued a demand for the Dean Bankruptcy Estate to withdraw all claims against dairy producers for preference payments and EPA released its draft biological evaluation for glyphosate.  Also, Pennsylvania funds a 2020 Farm Bill while the Pennsylvania CARES Act Dairy Indemnity Program paid...


Dec 1, 2020

The Dean Foods bankruptcy estate sent letters demanding paybacks of preference payments made to dairy producers and the International Dairy Federation published updated dairy terminology guidance.  Also, the Forest Services published a final rule outlining compliance standards for the National Environmental Policy Act...


Nov 30, 2020

The Fourth Circuit affirmed nuisance liability for a Smithfield subsidiary swine production facility in North Carolina, after which Smithfield announced a settlement of the claims and the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration announced an interim final rule defining the term “agricultural commodity” for the...


Nov 19, 2020

The European Commission passed a measure imposing tariffs on U.S. agricultural products and JBS agreed to a settlement in a pending consolidated class action pork price-fixing lawsuit.  Also, soybean and cotton groups are challenging EPA’s recently issued dicamba registrations.

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