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Where Are My Syngenta Settlement Payments? Checks Going Out by Summer 2020 (Hopefully)

Paul Goeringer

Mar 10, 2020
2 min

Where Are My Syngenta Settlement Payments? Checks Going Out by Summer 2020 (Hopefully)

The article is not a substitute for legal advice. See here for the site’s reposting policy. Several of you continue to ask me when you might see checks from the Syngenta corn seed settlement. In late 2018, the court approved the settlement order for the $1.51 billion MIR162 Syngenta settlement. Based on the final order, payments to producers should have started going out in the second quarter of 2019, but this did not happen. On January 3, 2020, the federal district court i

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Where Are My Syngenta Settlement Payments: Why Have Checks Not Been Issued Yet?

Paul Goeringer

Jul 30, 2019
2 min

Where Are My Syngenta Settlement Payments: Why Have Checks Not Been Issued Yet?

This is not a substitute for legal advice. See here for the site’s reposting policy. A number of you have asked when potential Syngenta settlement checks would be released to growers. In late 2018, the settlement order was approved for the $1.51 billion MIR162 Syngenta settlement. Based on the final order, payments to producers should have started going out in the second quarter of 2019. At this time that has not happened, but recently the Settlement website has been upda

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Year in Review: 2018 Ag Law Developments

Paul Goeringer

Jan 15, 2019
5 min

Year in Review: 2018 Ag Law Developments

This is not a substitute for legal advice. See here for the site’s reposting policy. With 2018 over and 2019 underway, I want to take a minute to look back at the top legal developments impacting agriculture in 2018. Many of these legal developments may seem like repeats from my 2017 update; click here to see. For those interested embedded above is a join podcast episode I did with Tiffany Lashmet covering the top ag law developments Moving into 2019, we will likely see n

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Eligible Corn Growers and Landlords Begin Filing Syngenta Settlement Claims in May

Paul Goeringer

May 8, 2018
3 min

Eligible Corn Growers and Landlords Begin Filing Syngenta Settlement Claims in May

The article is not a substitute for legal advice. See here for the site’s reposting policy. On April 10, 2018, a federal district court judge granted preliminary approval to the $1.51 billion MIR162 Syngenta settlement. This settlement, reached in September 2017 and officially announced in March 2018, would settle claims by U.S. farmers for Syngenta bringing Viptera and Duracade corn varieties to market before approval in China. This approval means corn growers in the Mid-

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Developments in Agricultural Law for 2017

Paul Goeringer

Dec 20, 2017
5 min

Developments in Agricultural Law for 2017

This is not a substitute for legal advice. See here for the site’s reposting policy. With 2017 coming to an end, I want to take a minute to look back at many of the top legal developments impacting Maryland agriculture in the year. Many of these legal developments may seem like repeats from my 2016 update; click here to see (http://bit.ly/2ixC9s2). With those repeated issues, in many cases we have seen resolutions, and we will probably continue to see litigation further de

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Proposed Settlement of Claims Against Syngenta: What Does It Mean For Delmarva Producers?

Paul Goeringer

Dec 12, 2017
2 min

Proposed Settlement of Claims Against Syngenta: What Does It Mean For Delmarva Producers?

This post is not legal advice. See the site’s reposting policy, here. On September 26, 2017, Syngenta agreed to settle claims brought by U.S. farmers for bringing Viptera and Duracade corn varieties to market before approval in China. While terms of the settlement are still unknown, news reports have estimated the settlement at around $1.5 billion. Corn growers do not need to sign up with attorneys at this time, unless they opted out of the nationwide class by April 1, 201

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