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The body of law governing the cultivation of various crops and the raising and management of livestock to provide a food and fabr...
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THE AGRICULTURAL EXEMPTION IN US LAW The agricultural exemption in U.S. federal law was granted by Congress through the clayton Act of 1916 and the Capper-Volstead Act of 1922.7 They were preceded by many state laws with similar content and objectives-namely to authorize the existence of agricultural cooperatives and to exempt them from antitrust liability.8 The background to the exemption was the atomistic nature of the farming industry and the inability of individual farmers to bargain on a leveled field with the few firms that dominated the processing and marketing of agricultural produce.
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 25, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The second issue of FDLI's Food and Drug Policy Forum (Volume 1, Number 2), to be published January 26, 2011, focuses on the increasingly important issue of genetically modified organisms (GMOs).
In the article published on the Food and Drug Law Institute's website (www.fdli.org), Ross H. Pifer, Director, and Richard J. Lupinsky, Jr., Research Fellow at the Agricultural Law Resource and Reference Center at Penn State University's Dickinson School of Law, make recommendations on this emerging international food and drug issue: "Should the European Union Proceed with the Implementation of New GMO Rules?
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Originally published 16 July 2010
Keywords: new law, agricultural land use tax, land tax
On 17 June 2010, the National Assembly in Vietnam passed ...
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- Notice: Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3 Provides that Dispositions Other Than Opinions or Orders Designated for Publication Are Not Precedential and Should Not Be Cited Except When Relevant Under the Doctrines of Law of the Case, Res Judicata, or Collateral Estoppel. Watts Agricultural Aviation, Inc., Dba Growers Air Service, Petitioner, v. James B. Busey, Administrator, Federal Aviation Administration, Respondent., 977 F.2d 594 (9th Cir. 1992)
Before WALLACE, Chief Judge, and SCHROEDER and POOLE, Circuit Judges.
MEMORANDUM*
Watts Agricultur...
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Byline: Ellie Oleson
Six generations of the Whittier family have farmed in Sutton and Oxford, nurturing some of the world's premier registered Holst...
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Originally published July 2004
Blackstone taught "if a person keeps his hogs, or other noisome animals, so near the house of another, that the stenc...
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The Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture is hosting a legal seminar for landowners about Marcellus shale on Wednesday in Richland.
Ross Pifer, director of the Agricultural Law Resource and Reference Center at Penn State's Dickinson School of Law, will lead the workshop. He will explain how landowners can protect themselves when entering into a gas drilling lease, how they can protect themselves if they don't own their land's mineral rights, and legal developments from new state law and federal regulations.