I’m speaking today from North Carolina on common agriculture contracts, including agriculture production contracts, custom feeding arrangements, farm leases, farm machinery leases, animal leases (such as bull and horse leases) and partnership agreements. My presentation is below: [slideshare id=26801973&doc=overviewofcommonagriculturecontracts-131002165536-phpapp02] I will be tweeting from the conference today so follow me live!
Upcoming Lawline Presentations on New York Local Food Law
I enjoyed giving my presentation last week on how to start and build a food and agriculture law practice. I will be posting the presentation on this blog in upcoming weeks. As a reminder, here are the two coming up on local food law: Counseling the Local Food Movement (Part I): October 24, 2013 from 4-5pm. I’ll be giving an …
Are You a Food and Agriculture Lawyer? 2 min Survey on Technology
As I noted in yesterday’s blog post, I’ll be speaking at the American Agriculture Law Association (“AALA”) Annual Meeting about technology in the food and agriculture law practice. I have a 2 minute survey on technology for food and agriculture lawyers- would mean a lot to me if you could answer a few questions about your current technology use. The …
Survey of Cottage Food Operation Law
I recently reviewed this article from the Harvard Food Law and Policy Clinic titled “Cottage Food Laws in the United States.” I think the authors did a nice job summarizing the trends throughout the country. I used this article as recommended reading for the undergraduate food law class that I’m teaching at New York University (“NYU”). Cottage food operation law …
Upcoming CLE on Renewable Energy Law for the Agriculture Industry
As I noted in this post, I will be moderating a CLE for the American Bar Association (“ABA”) General Practice, Solo & Small Firm (“GP Solo”) Agriculture Law Committee on “Renewable Energy Law for the Agriculture Industry” on Thursday, October 10, 2013 at 1pm ET. We’ll be discussing solar power purchase agreements, solar lease agreements, wind lease agreements, transmission and …
Book Release Party at Rincker Law
I’ll be hosting a book release party on September 30, 2013 from 4:30 to 7:30pm at my law office. If you’re interested in attending, please RSVP here or shoot me an email. You can now buy your own copy of the book on Amazon.com. I will be going on a “book tour” soon throughout New York State. If you would …
Upcoming Lawline Series on Food and Agriculture Law Topics
I’m very excited to announce that I will be putting on a three part food and agriculture law series with Lawline. These will be the first food and agriculture law presentations on Lawline. It is FREE to come to the live recording of the lecture. The recording will later be available on lawline.com, along with some other great law lectures. …
My Presentation on Livestock Judging
This is no April Fool’s Day Joke. I know that this is a food and agriculture law blog but I figured some of my readers might be interested on my presentation on how to judge livestock – specifically, beef cattle, swine, and meat sheep. I judged competitively at Lake Land College and Texas A & M University in undergrad and …
Registration Form Available for Local Food Law Seminar at Pace Law School
The registration form is available for the Continuing Legal Education (“CLE”) Seminar at Pace Law School in White Plains, New York on Monday, October 29th on a survey of local food law. It is open to the public and the general admission is only $15. There will be approximately 20 minutes or so of Q & A so come ready …
Harvard’s Food Law & Policy Career Guide
Big thanks to Jean Terranova (@JeanTerranova for you Twitter folks) for sending me the Food Law and Policy Career Guide by the Harvard Food Law & Policy Clinic and Harvard Food Law Society. I think it’s an excellent resource for folks interested in a career in food & agriculture law. The guide briefly notes areas of concentration including agriculture, biotechnology/GMOs, …
Three Years and the Fun Keeps Coming…
Happy Third Year Anniversary to this blog! Seems like just yesterday I was writing this second year anniversary post. Time flies when you are having fun! It’s been an exciting third year of this blog. Here are a few highlights: 1. This law blog (“blawg”) made the American Bar Association’s (“ABA”) Top 100 Blawg list. Nominations for 2012 are right …