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News & Analysis as of May 25, 2013

Even If You Can't Insure The End Of Days, You Can Insure Some Of The Effects Of Climate Change

by J. Wylie Donald | McCarter & English: Climate Change &... on 12/24/2012

Today is the day the world ended. But it didn’t. The spin put by some on the Mayan calendar didn’t pan out and the world continued. Here in Baltimore we didn’t buy into the predictions, but just in case, we went looking...more

Episode 66 – Farmer Al Courchesne and Community Supported Agriculture

by Wendel, Rosen, Black & Dean LLP on 6/13/2012

Located in Brentwood, an hour east of San Francisco, Frog Hollow Farm produces organic stone summer fruit – cherries, nectarines, plums, peaches and pluots – on 143 acres in California’s Central Valley. In the fall, Farmer...more

Interview Agrarisch Magazine januari 2012

by Arthur van Hoey Smith on 1/1/2012

Een interview in het Agrarisch Magazine van Cunningham Lindsey, januari 2012...more

Australia's Clean Energy Future - Carbon Farming

by Dermot Duncan on 7/21/2011

Summary of the Carbon Farming Initiative in Australia - which is the proposed "domestic" off-set for the proposed Federal Emissions Trading Scheme due to be implemented in July 2012....more

McAfee & Taft AgLINC - June 2011

by McAfee & Taft on 6/14/2011

In This Issue: 1 Jacky Martin racing again 2 Endangered species litigation 3 The Oklahoma Livestock Owner’s Lien Act 4 Winds of change Excerpt from "Jacky Martin racing again" Racing legend looks to McAfee & Taft...more

McAfee & Taft AgLINC - December 2010

by McAfee & Taft on 12/28/2010

INSIDE THIS ISSUE: 2 Oklahoma’s Nontestamentary Transfer of Property Act 3 Tracking EPA’s enforcement of the CAFO Mandatory Greenhouse Gas Reporting Rule 3 The excess farm loss deduction limitation 4 Oklahoma’s Oil and...more

Non-Agricultural Land Use Tax

by Quynh Pham on 10/26/2010

Please find below the recent Client Alert on the Non-Agricultural Land Use Tax....more

Agriculture Provisions of House CLimate Change Bill ("ACES")

by Craig Raysor on 7/14/2009

Document is a summary of the Agriculture provisions that amended the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 before it narrowly passed the House of Representatives on June 26, 2009. It is now currently on the calender...more

ABCs of Carbon Markets

by Dickinson, Mackaman, Tyler & Hagen, P.C. on 4/16/2009

A guide to carbon markets, including frequently asked questions, descriptions of and terminology used by the major emissions trading systems, and a glossary of carbon trading terms. ...more