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May 18, 2018
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Weekly Roundup May 18th

By Sarah Fielder Maryland Risk Management Education Blog Celebrates 4 Years This week this site is celebrating 4 years of providing you with information related to the law, crop insurance, and other risk management issues. Thank you to all the readers who have made this site a success and hopefully sustain us into the future. NAFTA Deadline Was Thursday This week House Speaker Paul Ryan announced a deadline to finalize NAFTA as May 17th. The deadline has to do with giving C

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May 11, 2018
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Weekly Roundup May 11th

By Sarah Fielder Upcoming Webinar Series Kicks Off With Dicamba Webinar More growers will be using dicamba-resistant technology in the 2018 crop year. In past years, other regions have seen increased complaints as growers have increased the use of dicamba-resistant technology. The Ag Law Education Initiative will kick off a series of webinars with a webinar focused on an overview of current issues with the dicamba-resistant technology and new dicamba formulations. This web

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May 4, 2018
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Weekly Roundup May 4th

By Sarah Fielder Why Precision Agriculture Will Change How Food Is Produced Technology like drones, radio frequency (RF), autonomous tractors and IoT applications are playing a role in the transformation of agriculture. To read more about precision agriculture, go here: https://bit.ly/2FEjjaU. Jury Awards Neighbors of North Carolina Hog Farm $50 Million In Nuisance Case A North Carolina jury on Thursday reached an unanimous verdict against pork producer Murphy-Brown LLC in

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Apr 20, 2018
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Weekly Roundup April 20th

By Sarah Fielder Syngenta Settlement Checks Not Likely Till 2019 Attorneys for the plaintiffs told news sources this week that settlement checks would be likely in the first half of 2019 after a federal judge gave preliminary approval to the settlement. The court still has to determine if the settlement is fair to all the class members. To learn more about this process, click here http://bit.ly/2J6HWPP. Order Granting 10 Arkansas Farmers Exemption From Dicamba Restrictions

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Apr 13, 2018
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Weekly Roundup April 13th

By Sarah Fielder State Estate Tax Exemption Set at $5 Million As the recent session of the Maryland General Assembly comes to an end this week, one of the bills passed that will become law without the Governor’s signature is legislation to end Maryland’s recoupling with the federal estate tax exemption. Maryland was scheduled to recouple in 2019 with the federal exemption, but Congress recently doubled the estate tax exemption. Based on the recent legislation, Maryland’s es

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Apr 6, 2018
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Weekly Roundup April 6th

By Sarah Fielder New Science Showing Bee-Killing Pesticides are Unnecessary on Most Farms. Conventional corn farmers—who grow the ubiquitous grain on 90 million acres in the U.S.—are struggling. Since 2014, these farmers have been spending more to produce corn than they can earn by selling it. The economic concentration of a few large seed and pesticide companies and their expensive products have allowed them to capture more farm profit, leaving less for farmers and their c

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Mar 30, 2018
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Weekly Round Up March 30th

By Sarah Fielder Dairy Does Not Infringe on Freedom of Religion The Indiana Court of Appeals recently heard an interesting challenge to a dairy’s plans for expansion, does the dairy’s proposed expansion infringe on a church’s First Amendment right to freedom of religion. The court rejected this argument and others claiming violations of local zoning ordinances. To read more about this case, click here http://bit.ly/2GekJ19. Senate Bill Introduced to Remove Hemp from Listing

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Mar 9, 2018
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Weekly Roundup March 9th

By Sarah Fielder Silicon Valley’s New Status Symbol: Chickens Silicon Valley’s tech elite have found a new hobby: backyard poultry. Many are using chickens as ways to de-stress and spending large sums of money on their chickens. The Washington Post highlights this new fad with the tech elite. To read the story, click here http://wapo.st/2oM8LRI. Salt Water Intrusion Threatens Maryland Farms The Atlantic highlights the struggles faced by many Maryland farmers losing product

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Mar 2, 2018
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Weekly Roundup March 2

By Sarah Fielder Tyson Poultry Fined $2 Million for Single Fish Kill Event This week Tyson Poultry was fined $2 million, given 2 years probation, and ordered to pay $500,000 in clean up costs. This penalty comes as a result of illegal discharges from a poultry plant in Missouri that caused a single fish kill event. To learn more about the penalty, click here to http://bit.ly/2F0cu81. Crop Insurance Deadline is Approaching This is a reminder for Delmarva producers that the

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Feb 23, 2018
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Weekly Roundup Feb. 23rd

By Sarah Fielder Crop Insurance Deadline is Approaching This is a reminder for Delmarva producers that the spring planted crops sales closing date for crop insurance is on March 15. Coverage for corn, cucumbers, forage seeding, fresh market sweet corn, fresh market tomatoes, grain sorghum, processing beans, processing sweet corn, processing tomatoes, soybeans, spring oats, and tobacco is available in select counties in Maryland. Producers should contact their crop insurance

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Feb 16, 2018
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Weekly Roundup Feb. 16th

By Sarah Fielder Budget Deal Includes Fix for Cotton and Dairy Early last Friday morning, Congress passed a budget deal that included a fix for the cotton programs and dairy programs. With dairy, the Dairy Margin Protection Program (MPP) would now be calculated on a monthly basis rather than a bimonthly basis, premiums would be changed for medium and small dairy farms on $4.50 and $5 coverage levels, and includes other fixes to MPP that dairy producers had asked for. The bi