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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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ADMINISTRATIVE LAW - current agricultural use valuation; board of revision; standard of review. TAXATION - wetland mitigation bank qualifies as land devoted exclusively to agricultural use.
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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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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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TO THE EDITORS:
A recent letter to the editor ("Brubaker's proposal promotes animal cruelty," Nov. 6) made a number of inaccurate and misleading statements regarding legislation I introduced to strengthen the state's agricultural trespasser law.
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To: STATE EDITORS
Contact: Nicole L. Cullison of PA Dept. of Agriculture, +1-717- 787-5085
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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.
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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...