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The owners of two Yakima orchards have paid $500,000 in back wages and interest to more than 400 workers.

Tyson Foods recently announced it will be closing a Virginia processing plant in May.  The two-month notice given to its chicken suppliers has raised concerns among farmers and legal experts about Tyson’s compliance with antitrust regulations.  Those re...

An attorney for the American Farm Bureau Federation said a lawsuit filed by the Bureau and other farm groups against the EPA’s final ‘Waters of the U.S.’ rule is needed, on top of any favorable Supreme Court ruling.  Deputy General Counsel Travis Cushman says the latest WOTUS lawsuit is needed, not just because of a possible timing gap between the Biden EPA rule effective in March and a Supreme Co

Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson announced this week the largest chicken producer in the nation will pay $10.5 million because of a lawsuit over price-fixing on chicken products.  The announcement is the third and largest resolution in Ferguson’s lawsuit against 19 broiler chicken producers.  The claims ag...

Smithfield Foods has agreed to pay $75 million to settle a price-fixing lawsuit.  Reuters said consumers accused the meat producer and several competitors of conspiring to inflate prices in the U.S. pork market by limiting supply.   Smithfield spokesman Jim Monroe said the company denied liability in settling, and that the accord reduces the distraction, risk, and cost of protracted litigation.  “

A group of U.S. agricultural organizations had filed a lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency over chlorpyrifos. DTN said the 21 groups want the agency’s pending ban on the product to be halted and eventually revoked. The lawsuit was filed as the EPA will finalize its rule revoking the food tolerances for the insecticide on February 28. That ...

A three-judge panel unanimously dismissed a challenge to the North Carolina “Right to Farm” Act. According to National Hog Farmer, the challenge was brought by the Rural Empowerment Association for Community Help, North Carolina Environmental Justice Community Action Network, and Waterkeeper Alliance in 2019. The ruling ...

According to a conservation group, the U.S. Forest Service violated numerous environmental laws in approving a 105-square-mile logging and restoration project outside of the town of Cascade. The Idaho Conservation League filed a lawsuit last week that claims the Forest Service violated the Endangered Species Act and other laws in approving the 20-year Sage Hen Project in the Boise National Forest

Two weeks ago, November 30th, the Oregon Law Center filed a suit over agricultural overtime in the state. Mary Anne Cooper, Vice President of Public Policy at the Oregon Farm Bureau, said they were floored by the lawsuit. “Because we had come to a workgroup that legislators convened last month in good faith and had been working through that process, we had growers participating, sharing confident

Last week, a host of conservation groups, including the state of Oregon, asked a federal court to order more spill from dams along the lower Snake and Columbia rivers this spring. The groups said the additional water will help aid the migration of salmon and steelhead ...