I Can’t Believe Anyone Thought It Was Butter! There is no shortage of quirky litigation over food claims. A recent example comes from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals which weighed in on [...]

Supreme Court Gives Pigs Space to Roam (or at least turn around) Hot off the Supreme Court press, the High Court affirmed the dismissal of National Pork Producers’ (NPP) and American Farm [...]

Ranch Water or ranch water? Sometimes a good brand idea just slips away, and next thing you know someone else is using your idea to make piles of money. A couple years ago I noticed a can of [...]

New Pesticides Buried in Lawsuits Over Endangered Species Act In a recent hearing before the House Ag Committee, EPA Administrator Michael Regan made it clear that the Agency has been hammered by [...]

Grain Trade May be Global, But Farming Is Local Accommodations implemented in Europe to maintain the flow of Ukrainian grain after the Russian invasion may be coming to an end. Poland and Hungary [...]

Love in the Air from Engineered Tobacco Groundbreaking new research from Earlham Institute has resulted in a genetically engineered tobacco plants that produces moth sex pheromones, paving the [...]

Peak Global Population? Food for a growing population – the phrase has become a mantra for all manner of farm groups, ag companies, environmentalists, policy makers, and others. The phrase [...]

Legislation to Protect Land & Crops from Dicamba Introduced in Arkansas A Bill to aiming to protect Arkansas’ diverse crops and natural environments from excessive and avoidable dicamba [...]

Agricultural Crop Licensing Platform Launched in Europe A group of nine seed companies have joined together to launch the “Agricultural Crop Licensing Platform” (ACLP) in the European [...]

Legislation Aims to Rein in Abuse in Commodity Checkoff Programs A bipartisan bill was introduced in the Senate aimed at overhauling commodity checkoff programs to eliminate (or reduce) improper [...]