Agricultural Law Weekly Review
The Agricultural Law Weekly Review provides an update of recent agricultural law developments from local, state, national, and international levels. Subscribe for updates.
Agricultural Law Weekly Review—July 8, 2025
Next Week: Tues. July 15—Quarterly Dairy Legal Webinar: 2025 Federal Milk Marketing Order Reforms
New! Progressive Dairy Podcast with Center Staff Attorney Brook Duer: How to Proactively Prepare and Protect Your Workforce Amid ICE Raids, I-9 Audits and Other Immigration Concerns
Agricultural Labor: DOL Publishes Proposed Rule to Rescind 2024 ‘Temporary Ag Worker Protections’ Rule 🌾
On July 2, 2025, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) Employment and Training Administration (ETA) and Wage and Hour Division (WHD) published in the Federal Register a proposed rule (90 FR 28919) to rescind the agencies’ 2024 final rule, “Improving Protections for Workers […]
Agricultural Law Weekly Review—July 1, 2025
This month—July 15: July 2025 Quarterly Dairy Legal Webinar
New! Why Aren’t PFAS Compounds in Land-Applied Biosolids Prohibited By EPA?, Center Staff Attorney Brook Duer, Southern Ag Today
Agricultural Labor: DOL Suspends Enforcement of 2024 ‘Temporary Ag Worker Protections’ Rule 🌾
On June 20, 2025, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) Wage and Hour Division (WHD) published a guidance document suspending enforcement of the agency’s 2024 final rule, “Improving Protections for Workers in Temporary Agricultural Employment in the United States,” which “addressed matters such as rights to engage in concerted activity; worker guest access to employer-provided housing; termination standards […]
Agricultural Law Weekly Review—June 24, 2025
This Week—Fri. June 27 at Noon: Pennsylvania’s Clean & Green Program: County-Level Administration
Register Now—2025 PA Agricultural Law Symposium, Sept. 18, 2025, at Univ. Park, PA.
Antitrust: Federal Court Approves $398 Million Settlement in Chicken Processor Wage-Fixing Class Action 🌾
On June 5, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland issued orders granting approval of a $398 million settlement fund and award of $132 million in attorney’s fees in a 2019 class action suit claiming that multiple national chicken processers conspired to fix and suppress employee wages. Jien v. Perdue Farms, Inc., No. 1:19-cv-02521. The […]
Agricultural Law Weekly Review—June 17, 2025
This week: An Overview of State Grain Dealer Statutes in the United States, Wed. June 18 at noon. Center Director Ross Pifer presents with the National Agricultural Law Center.
Next week: Understanding Pennsylvania’s Clean & Green Program: County-Level Administration, Fri. June 27 at noon. Attorney CLE available.
Technology: Federal Court Allows Deere Antitrust Case to Proceed 🌾
On June 9, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois issued an opinion and order denying Deere & Company’s motion for judgment on the pleadings and allowing the advancement of a case alleging that the company’s repair restrictions violate […]
Agricultural Law Weekly Review—June 10, 2025
Next Week: An Overview of State Grain Dealer Statutes in the United States, Wed. June 18 at noon. Center Director Ross Pifer presents with the National Agricultural Law Center.
Dairy Policy: Pennsylvania Milk Board Publishes Order Continuing $1 Over-Order Premium 🌾
On June 4, 2025, the Pennsylvania Milk Board (PMB) published Official General Order No. A-1021 on its Official General Orders webpage. The order, effective July 1–December 31, 2025, will replace Official General Order No. A-1020, issued in December 2024, and will continue the $1.00 per hundredweight over-order premium on all Class I milk produced, processed, and sold […]
Agricultural Law Weekly Review—June 3, 2025
National Agricultural Policy: House Ag Committee Publishes Draft Budget Resolution Plan 🌾
On May 12, 2025, the House Committee on Agriculture announced the publication of its draft text to accommodate the federal budget resolution’s reconciliation directives (H. Con. Res. 14). Additionally, the committee published a section-by-section overview of the draft. For more detail on the bill’s provisions, see Peggy Kirk Hall, House Farm Bill Reconciliation Summary Overview, Ohio St. Univ. Ext. Farm Off. Blog (May 27, 2025) and Kristine A. Tidgren, What Tax Provisions are in the House’s Big Beautiful Bill?, Iowa St. Univ. Ctr. […]
Agricultural Law Weekly Review—May 27, 2025
Registration Open! 2025 Pennsylvania Agricultural Law Symposium: Sept. 18, 2025
This Friday! May 30: Understanding the Basics of the Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act
Avian Influenza: Brazil Confirms HPAI in Commercial Flock, APHIS Issues Import Restrictions 🌾
On May 16, 2025, the Brazilian Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock announced (PDF) that the ministry had confirmed the presence of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in a commercial poultry breeding facility located in the country’s southernmost state bordering Uruguay, Rio Grande do Sul. On the same day, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service […]
Agricultural Law Weekly Review—May 20, 2025
This Week! Wed. May 21: NALC Webinar Will Explore Americans with Disabilities Act Requirements for Farm Operators
Next Week: Fri. May 30: Understanding the Basics of the Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act (free attorney CLE available)
Agribusiness: Pennsylvania Opens Farm Vitality Planning Grant Program, $500,000 Available 🌾
On May 17, 2025, the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture (PDA) published in the Pennsylvania Bulletin a notice (55 Pa.B. 3427) of the standards and requirements for the Agricultural Business Development Center’s (ABDC) Farm Vitality Planning Grant Program. According to the notice, the program will provide grants up to $15,000, limited […]
Agricultural Law Weekly Review—May 13, 2025
Next Week! Wed. May 21, 2025, Navigating ADA Compliance for Agritourism Guests, Jackie Schweichler presents with the National Agricultural Law Center
Registration Open! 2025 Pennsylvania Agricultural Law Symposium—Thurs. Sept. 18, 2025
Pesticides/Herbicides: Pennsylvania Superior Court Upholds $175 Million Roundup Verdict Against Monsanto, Finds No FIFRA Preemption 🌾
On May 8, 2025, the Pennsylvania Superior Court issued an opinion affirming a $175 million jury verdict awarded in October 2023 in the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas in favor of a plaintiff claiming that Monsanto/Bayer’s glyphosate-based Roundup herbicide caused his non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Caranci v. Monsanto, No. 993 EDA 2024 (Pa. […]
Agricultural Law Weekly Review—May 6, 2025
This Friday! May 9, 2025, Understanding the Basics of PA Ag Exemptions for Inheritance Tax and Other Real Estate Transfers (rescheduled)
Pesticides/Herbicides: EPA Publishes Final Insecticide Strategy for Federally Listed Species 🌾
On April 29, 2025, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published its final Insecticide Strategy, which the agency states “represents a framework that EPA will use as it registers and re-registers pesticides” (EPA-HQ-OPP-2024-0299). The final Strategy to Protect Endangered Species from Insecticides details the EPA’s “three-step framework” for agricultural insecticide registration and review actions under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA): (1) “establish[] the […]
