The Agricultural Law Weekly Review has migrated to our new website at https://aglaw.psu.edu/topics/ag-law-weekly-review/.  If you have already subscribed, you will continue to receive emails. If you are interested in receiving other publications from the Center, you can subscribe here.  If you have any questions about this change, please email Jackie Schweichler at jks251@psu.edu or call (814) 746-4619.  ..read more

Written by: Audry Thompson - Research Assistant Brook Duer - Staff Attorney Penn State Law’s Center for Agricultural and Shale Law publishes the Agricultural Law Weekly Review as an informative update on agricultural law developments from across the region, nation and internationally.  Visit our new website at https://aglaw.psu.edu/ where you can subscribe to this update or our other recurring publications or podcasts. Agricultural Labor: Maryland Court of Appeals Finds Tyson Farms Not Co-Employer of Poultry Farm Employee  On November 20, 2020, the ..read more

Written by:  Audry Thompson—Research Assistant  Brook Duer—Staff Attorney  Penn State Law’s Center for Agricultural and Shale Law publishes the Agricultural Law Weekly Review as an informative update on agricultural law developments from across the region, nation and internationally.  Visit our new website at https://aglaw.psu.edu/ where you can subscribe to this update or our other recurring publications or podcasts. COVID-19: USDA Announces Fifth Round of Food Box Purchases  On January 4, 2021, the U.S. Department of Agriculture an ..read more

  On Tuesday, January 26, 2021, at 12 noon – 1 pm EST Penn State Law’s Center for Agricultural and Shale Law will be conducting a second webinar in its series titled “Quarterly Dairy Industry Legal Update” and will cover legal and regulatory developments in the U.S. dairy industry in the 4th quarter of calendar year 2020.  Each webinar in the series provides a 30-minute round-up of the past quarter’s legal and regulatory developments impacting the dairy industry followed by a 30-minute focused topic of interest to dairy producers and professionals.  Additional dates establi ..read more

  2021 PA Farm Show Agricultural Law Symposium On January 12 and 14, 2021, the Penn State Center for Agricultural and Shale Law will be hosting the 2021 Pennsylvania Farm Show Agricultural Law Symposium consisting of four hours of educational webinars on current topics of importance in agricultural law presented by the Center’s legal staff and guest experts in their fields.  The symposium will include a recap of 2020’s biggest agricultural law developments and sessions covering solar leasing, what you need to know about the Chesapeake Bay and the Conowingo Dam and the dramatic past ..read more

Written by:  Audry Thompson—Research Assistant Brook Duer—Staff Attorney The Agricultural Law Weekly Review provides an update of recent agricultural law developments from local, state, national, and international levels.  Subscribe at pennstateaglaw.com.  Want to listen to this Weekly Review? Check out the Penn State Agricultural Law Podcast.  COVID-19: $900 Billion Appropriations Act Includes $13 Billion in COVID-19 Relief for Agriculture  On December 27, 2020, President Trump signed into law H.R.133, known as the “Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021,” which app ..read more

Written by:  Audry Thompson—Research Assistant Brook Duer—Staff Attorney The Agricultural Law Weekly Review provides an update of recent agricultural law developments from local, state, national, and international levels.  Subscribe at pennstateaglaw.com.  Want to listen to this Weekly Review? Check out the Penn State Agricultural Law Podcast.  Pesticides/Herbicides: EPA’s 5-Year Dicamba Registration Approval Challenged in Parallel Litigation  On December 21, 2020, the identical five entities (referred to collectively herein as the “Center for Food Safety”) who were ..read more

 Agricultural Law Weekly Review—week ending December 18, 2020  Written by:  Audry Thompson—Research Assistant Brook Duer—Staff Attorney The Agricultural Law Weekly Review provides an update of recent agricultural law developments from local, state, national, and international levels.  Subscribe at pennstateaglaw.com.  Want to listen to this Weekly Review? Check out the Penn State Agricultural Law Podcast.  Pesticides/Herbicides: Punitive Damages Reduced to $60 Million in Bader Farms Dicamba Case On November 25, 2020, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern Dist ..read more

Written by:  Audry Thompson—Research Assistant Brook Duer—Staff Attorney The Agricultural Law Weekly Review provides an update of recent agricultural law developments from local, state, national, and international levels.  Subscribe at pennstateaglaw.com.  Want to listen to this Weekly Review? Check out the Penn State Agricultural Law Podcast.  Dean Foods Bankruptcy: Pennsylvania Milk Marketing Board Negotiates Nationwide Solution to Preference Payment Claims On December 9, 2020, the Pennsylvania Milk Marketing Board (PMMB), partnering with the Pennsylvania Office of Att ..read more

Written by:  Audry Thompson—Research Assistant Brook Duer—Staff Attorney The Agricultural Law Weekly Review provides an update of recent agricultural law developments from local, state, national, and international levels.  Subscribe at pennstateaglaw.com.  Want to listen to this Weekly Review? Check out the Penn State Agricultural Law Podcast.  Dean Foods Bankruptcy: Dean Foods Bankruptcy Estate Threatens Dairy Producers with Lawsuits to Recoup Alleged “Preference” Payments  On November 24, 2020, a commercial collections law firm named ASK LLP, headquartered in St ..read more