Animal Health
Agricultural Law Weekly Review—April 8, 2025
Next Week: Apr. 15, 2025, Quarterly Dairy Legal Webinar—Bovine Disease Controls: Federal and PA Laws & Regulations
Agribusiness: FinCEN Publishes Interim Final Rule Limiting BOI Reporting Requirement to Foreign Companies 🌾
On March 26, 2025, the U.S. Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) published in the Federal Register an interim final rule (90 FR 13688) to require only “foreign reporting companies” to report Beneficial Ownership Information (BOI) under the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA). According to the rule, “entities previously defined as ‘domestic reporting companies’ are exempted from the reporting requirements and do not have to report BOI to FinCEN, or […]
Agricultural Law Weekly Review—March 4, 2025
This Week—Wed. Mar. 5: Compliance with New Federal and State Business Entity Informational Filing Requirements
Agribusiness: FinCEN Announces Pause on BOI Enforcement, Upcoming Interim Rule 🌾
On February 27, 2025, the U.S. Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) announced that the agency “will not issue any fines or penalties or take any other enforcement actions against any companies based on any failure to file or update beneficial ownership information (BOI) reports pursuant to the Corporate Transparency Act by the current deadlines,” which have been extended until March 21, 2025. FinCEN further states, “No fines or penalties will be issued, and no […]
Agricultural Law Weekly Review—January 21, 2025
THIS WEEK: Webinar on Jan. 24, 2025, Understanding the Basics of Pennsylvania’s Carbon Sequestration Law
NEW: Farmland Energy Podcast, The Inflation Reduction Act and Agriculture (Jan. 14, 2025)
Dairy Policy: USDA Publishes Final Rule Amending Federal Milk Marketing Order Pricing Provisions 🌾
On January 17, 2025, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) published in the Federal Register a final rule (90 FR 6600) amending the pricing provisions in the 11 Federal Milk Marketing Orders (FMMOs) after “separate producer referenda held in each of the 11 FMMOs obtained the necessary two-thirds vote in favor of adoption of […]
Agricultural Law Weekly Review—January 14, 2025
NEW:
- Duer, Brook, and Paul Goeringer. “2024 Brought Unprecedented Zoonotic Disease Control Challenge as Well as Far-Reaching Questions of Legal Authority.” Southern Ag Today. Jan. 10, 2025.
- Farmland Energy Legal Podcast: “An Introduction to Foreign Ownership of Agricultural Land.” Jan. 7, 2025.
Avian Influenza: USDA Announces 28 States Enrolled in National Milk Testing Strategy, HHS Announces $306 Million for Avian Flu 🌾
On January 8, 2025, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) announced that 15 additional states have enrolled in the National Milk Testing Strategy: Alabama, Arizona, Delaware, Iowa, Georgia, […]
Agricultural Law Weekly Review—June 17, 2024
Antitrust: USDA Publishes Poultry Grower, Dealer Proposed Rule 🌾
On June 10, 2024, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) published in the Federal Register a proposed rule (89 FR 49002) pursuant to the Packers and Stockyards Act titled “Poultry Grower Payment Systems and Capital Improvement Systems.” Also announced by the USDA, the proposed rule would establish several requirements for live poultry dealers (LPDs) and agreements between LPDs and broiler growers. Particularly, the rule would “[p]rohibit LPDs from discounting or reducing a grower’s rate of compensation as disclosed in the broiler growing arrangement based on the […]
Agricultural Law Weekly Review—May 30, 2024
National Agricultural Policy: House Agriculture Committee Advances Farm Bill 🌾
On May 23, 2024, the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Agriculture passed (33-21) the “Farm, Food, and National Security Act of 2024” (H.R.8467), the House version of the 2024 Farm Bill. Previously, on May 17, 2024, the House Committee published a discussion draft and summary of the bill, also announced by the Committee. On May 1, 2024, the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry announced a summary of its Farm Bill draft, titled the “Rural Prosperity and Food Security Act of […]
Agricultural Law Weekly Review—May 29, 2023
Water Quality: U.S. Supreme Court Provides Definitive Clarity to Definition of Waters of the United States (WOTUS) 🌾
On May 25, 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a decision in the case of Sackett v. EPA, et al., No. 21-454, reversing and remanding the decision of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and stating, “[W]e hold that the [Clean Water Act] extends to only those “wetlands with a continuous surface connection to bodies that are ‘waters of the United States’ in their own right,” so that they are “indistinguishable” from those waters,” citing its own earlier plurality decision in […]
Agricultural Law Weekly Review—January 30, 2023
WOTUS: Ag Groups Challenge New WOTUS Rule 🌾
On January 18, 2023, several agricultural advocacy groups and the state of Texas filed complaints in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas Galveston Division seeking to vacate the recently published final rule defining “Waters of the United States” (WOTUS) under the Clean Water Act (CWA). Am. Farm Bureau Federation v. U.S. EPA, No. 3:23-cv-00020. Among these advocacy groups are the American Farm Bureau Federation, the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, the National Pork Producers Council, and others. The advocacy groups argue that the new final rule […]
Agricultural Law Weekly Review—Week Ending October 21, 2022
Animal Welfare: Utah State Jury Finds Animal Activist Not Guilty of Burglary and Theft for Taking Two Piglets from Smithfield-Owned Swine Operation 🌾
On October 8, 2022, a Utah state court jury found Wayne Hsiung not guilty of theft and burglary for removing two piglets from a swine production facility owned and operated by Smithfield Foods’ Circle Four Farms while conducting an undercover investigation of the facility in March 2017. Utah v. Hsiung, No. 181500061 (5th Dist. Utah). Hsiung, a member of the animal rights group Direct Action Everywhere, was indicted and arrested in May 2018, although […]
Agricultural Law Weekly Review—Week Ending July 22, 2022
Antitrust: Federal Poultry Processing Wage Suppression Suit Alleging National Conspiracy Survives Motions to Dismiss 🌾
On July 19, 2022, U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland issued an opinion on five motions to dismiss the third amended complaint in this 2019 putative class action case titled Judy Jein, et al. v. Perdue Farms, Inc., et al. No. 19-2521 (USDC MD), based upon Sherman Act antitrust violations on behalf of workers at various poultry processing plants. The class action alleges that the defendant manufacturers conspired to depress wages and share compensation data in order to do so. The twenty-six […]
