As I write this blog, there is a stack of directories from the Yellow Pages by my building’s front door on the Upper West Side.  It has been sitting there for the last two days completely untouched while busy New Yorkers went to work and walked passed it coming home.  Finally, this morning I decided to [...]

Many people in the agriculture community like to complain about the law, but only a select few take the time to do something about it.  In the recent Grassroots newspaper published by the New York Farm Bureau (“NYFB”), there is a great article by Jeff Williams (on page 13) about how a New York agriculture [...]

The American Farm Bureau Federation (“AFBF”) has recently launched a legal affairs website (available here).  I had an opportunity to visit the website today and think it is a valuable resource for the agriculuture community.  Not only does it list all the federal court cases where AFBF has intervened but it also provides links to the [...]

If you recall, last fall I did several interviews with several other members of the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (“NCBA”) Young Producers’ Council (“YPC”) leadership board.  In case you missed it, you can go back and read the interviews with Brandon Carlson, Dustin Dean, Holly Foster (Part I and Part II), and Ben Neale.  I am [...]