An Inalienable Right to Food, and other legal news to ponder from Cape Law Firm

Maine to vote for a Constitutional “Right to Food” Voters in Maine will consider whether to amend their State Constitution to establish a fundamental, inalienable right to food for [...]

Intense interest is developing in agricultural carbon credits, kickstarted by the Senate’s passage of the Growing Climate Solutions Act. A variety of private companies are offering programs [...]

USDA Aims to Make Agriculture “Climate-Smart” ​USDA recently announced a bold initiative for addressing carbon emissions in agriculture and creating market opportunities for [...]

The Oklahoma medical cannabis industry is booming, so much so that a collection of agricultural associations have asked the State’s cannabis regulator to implement a temporary moratorium on [...]

To re cover damages for patent infringement, U.S. patent law requires patent owners to either (i) mark the patented articles with a patent notice, or (ii) provide the accused infringer with [...]

Welcome! We focus on legal developments affecting food, agriculture, plant variety protection, and intellectual property. If someone thought well enough to forward this to you and you’d [...]

Hacking Automated Tractors may lead to random harvesting and spraying Gaping security flaws in the software of farm equipment were recently revealed at DefCon 29, an annual hacker convention. [...]

Rural counties getting Rural-er Newly released data released from the 2020 Census continues to confirm a trend of an aging and urbanized United States. Data and maps released earlier this month [...]

North Carolina gives Hemp Program to USDA ​North Carolina has decided to give the USDA responsibility for hemp production in the State with its announcement that it will not continue its hemp [...]

Dicamba use continues a pattern of devastation Another year, another wave of dicamba herbicide injuries has swept through rural America, repeating its troubling pattern of off-target impacts. [...]