Items Tagged with 'National Agricultural Law Center'

For nearly four decades, the federal government has protected environmentally sensitive farmland through a simple bargain with farmers known as “conservation compliance.” If they want to receive farm program benefits, growers can’t plow up wetlands, and they must take steps to protect highly erodible acreage.

Agrichemical company Syngenta is now weighing its next steps after being issued a stern ultimatum by the Arkansas attorney general: divest of 160 acres of land within two years or face legal action.

Jewel Bronaugh is the new president of the 1890 Universities Foundation.

The American Sugar Alliance has elevated Robert Johansson to the new role of director of economics and policy analysis, and Katharine Emerson has returned to the World Food Program USA as its new chief of staff.

Florida has expanded its right-to-farm law by making it more difficult for residents to sue over the impacts of agricultural operations, adding a slew of conditions designed to discourage lawsuits.