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Mar 19, 2020
The Treasury Department has extended the deadline for filing and payment of federal income taxes to July 15, 2020. To learn more from OSU's Barry Ward, click here.
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Feb 26, 2020
The National Agricultural Law Center will host a landowner liability webinar on Wednesday, March 18, 2020 at Noon EST. The free webinar will feature Tiffany Lashment of Texas A&M, who will offer strategies for reducing landowner liability exposure. To attend, visit this link.
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Jan 30, 2020
Whether you call it “cell-cultured meat”, “clean meat”, or “fake meat,” you’ve probably heard of protein alternatives grown from the stem cells of living animals. But who designates what words may or may not be included on the labeling of these products, as well as other existing products such as “beyond meat burgers”? This webinar at noon on Feb.
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Jan 6, 2020
A difficult economic year for crop production typically leads to more crop insurance claims that trigger the automatic crop insurance audit procedure. In our newest law bulletin for the National Agricultural Law Center, we explain the audit procedure and present strategies for preparing documentation for a crop insurance audit. Read the new bulletin here.
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Nov 12, 2019
Perhaps the only positive result of the 1980s farm financial crisis was the birth of the American Agricultural Law Association. Attorneys helping farmers through those challenging times founded the AALA. Fast forward 40 years, when over 400 attorneys gathered in Washington, DC for AALA's 40th anniversary conference. Past AALA Distinguished Service Award recipients, including OSU's Peggy Kirk Hall, gathered for a photo. For more about this fantastic organization, visit this link.
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Oct 18, 2019
Best wishes to Evin Bachelor as he leaves his fellowship with the Farm Office. Evin will be practicing law with our good friends at Wright & Moore Law Co. LPA in Delaware, Ohio. He's an excellent addition to an already outstanding agricultural law firm. You’ll continue to see his work on the Farm Office, however, as we’ll be contracting with Evin on a few more finance and farm transition projects in the next year. Evin’s time with OSU is over, but our work with Evin will continue!
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Oct 14, 2019
The Financing the Farm law bulletin series provides new and beginning farmers with an overview of the most commonly used documents in agricultural finance. Each law bulletin covers a different type of financial agreement, and explains basic terminology, fundamental legal requirements, and how the arrangement is used in farming operations.
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Sep 6, 2019
There's a lot of buzz these days about growing hemp as an agricultural crop, but it's not yet legal to do so in Ohio. We've written a new law bulletin to explain the status of federal and state laws on hemp. Read the law bulletin here, and be sure to follow the Ohio Ag Law Blog to learn when it will be legal to begin growing and processing hemp in Ohio.
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Aug 26, 2019
Our newest Law Bulletin tackles a tricky topic: labor laws that apply to youth working on farms. Make sure you know the rules, which we explain in Youth Labor on the Farm: Laws Farmers Need to Know, available here.
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Aug 14, 2019
Large scale solar development is on the rise and so is solar leasing. With support from USDA and the National Agricultural Law Center, we've written a guide to help farmland owners decide if leasing farmland for solar energy is a good decision for the farm and family. Check out the guide here, and go here for our solar leasing checklist.
