AALA member Tiffany Lashmet, associate professor with Texas A&M AgriLife Extension, was quoted in DTN’s “Planting Season Stirs Up More Dust in Illinois: Are Farms Responsible If It Causes Highway Accidents?” The article was about negligence lawsuits. Click here to read more.

AALA member Travis Cushman, deputy general counsel for the American Farm Bureau Federation, was interviewed by Bloomberg Law for an article about the Securities and Exchange Commission’s proposed rules that would have required companies to disclose the greenhouse gas emissions of their suppliers – among them, family farmers. Click here to read more.

AALA member Kristi Boswell, an ag policy lawyer with Alston & Bird, discussed the effects of politics on ag labor reform and the potential challenges that need to be overcome during the March 29, 2024, Agri-Pulse Newsmakers. Click here to watch.

AALA member Brook Duer, a staff attorney with the Center for Agricultural and Shale Law at Penn State University, provided comments to DTN about the pork sales ban in Massachusetts. Click here to read more.

AALA member Dan Lindstrom, a shareholder at Jacobsen Orr, was quoted in the Flatwater Free Press. The article discussed out-of-state investors who are buying up Nebraska land for the groundwater. Click here to read more.

AALA member Elizabeth Rumley, senior staff attorney at the National Agricultural Law Center, wrote a post for Southern Ag Today titled “Finding a Lawyer”. She offered five tips for farmers who are looking for attorneys who can represent their legal interests. One included a link to AALA’s public membership directory. Click here to read more.

Farm Journal dove into an Indiana family’s winning an $810,000 court judgement exposing government neglect. AALA members Todd Janzen and Brianna Schroeder helped them prevail in the case, backed by a roadmap of precision farm data and yield history. Click here to read more.

Agri-Pulse quoted AALA member Michael Formica, chief legal strategist at the National Pork Producers Council, in its January 25, 2024, “Daybreak” news roundup. In the snippet “Industry, enviros find something to agree on”, he noted insufficient due process in proposed regulations for meat and poultry processing plants. Click here to read more. (trial or subscription […]

AALA member Travis Cushman, deputy general counsel for the American Farm Bureau Federation, was quoted by DTN in an article about the farm bill and agriculture’s labor challenges and by Agri-Pulse in a snippet about a looming SEC rule. Click here to read more from Agri‑Pulse. Click here to read more from DTN.

AALA member Kristi Boswell, an ag labor specialist with Alston & Bird, was part of the January 12, 2024, Agri-Pulse Newsmakers. She discussed the politics unfolding on Capitol Hill and what that environment might mean for key ag policy priorities like the farm bill, labor, and more. Click here to watch.