Legal News

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 [...]

​The Federal Trade Commission has proposed a new rule that will ban employers’ use of non-compete agreements on their employees. Traditionally, noncompete agreements were disfavored and [...]

Dan Basse, President of AgResource, delivered his broad economic assessment of U.S. and global markets at the American Seed Trade Association’s 2022 Corn, Soybean & Sorghum Seed Expo [...]

​   No Need to Wait for Delta-8 (at least in the 9th) Delta-8 THC, one of the more than one hundred different cannabinoids in the cannabis plant, has been deemed legalized by the US 9th [...]

Congress Aims to Bring Order to the Wild, Wooly World of Biostimulants The Plant Biostimulant Act of 2022 was introduced in Congress this month as an amendment to the Federal Insecticide, [...]

Arkansas State Plant Board Unconstitutional – Again For the second time in a less than a year litigation over the appointment process for members of the Arkansas State Plant Board has been [...]

Delta Dirt Distillery’s Sweet Vodka Farms willing to take a leap and step outside of the commodity cycle can reap some fine rewards, and Harvey Williams, Jr. has done just that with his [...]

Uninformed Honey Bees Ah, the pitfalls of the “all natural” marketing claim. What could be more natural that bees making honey? Apparently, it depends on the integrity of the bees and [...]

USDA Requests Comments on Anti-Competitive Issues in Seed, Fertilizer, and Ag Inputs ​USDA recently launched an inquiry seeking public comments on the current market structures and consolidation [...]

The Slippery Slope of “Solicitation” in Non-Solicitation Agreements Although non-solicitation agreements are routinely used to protect trade secrets and prevent unfair competition, in [...]