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The United States Department of Agriculture (“USDA”) Natural Resources Conservation Service (“NCRS”) promulgated a final rule on October 26th in the Federal Register making revisions to the Environmental Quality Incentives...more
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (“USDA”) recent efforts to update the Farm Bill’s Title II conservation programs continued into the 2020 year. USDA has issued since early December a number of interim final rules to...more
We wrote in early December that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (“USDA”) issued an “interim rule” to revise the terms and conditions of the Conservation Reserve Program and implement certain program amendments required by...more
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has announced that it will extend the period for comment on its final interim regulations establishing the U.S. Domestic Hemp Production Program by thirty days, until January...more
Even as the U.S. Department of Agriculture released its interim rule for the domestic production of hemp, the last few months should stand as a strong reminder to the industry: in addition to complying with new rules and...more
On December 3, 2019, FinCEN, along with the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, in consultation with the Conference of...more
Since publishing the Interim Final Rule for the U.S. Domestic Hemp Program (the “IFR”), the U.S. Department of Agriculture ("USDA") has been inundated with comments and criticism from stakeholders in the hemp industry. We...more
On October 31, 2019, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) released its long-awaited regulations governing hemp. Those regulations provide critical guidance to the hemp industry following the Agriculture Improvement Act of...more
Part I - On Thursday, October 31, 2019, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Agriculture Marketing Service (AMS) published an interim final rule (Rule) on domestic hemp production in the Federal Register....more
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) published its interim regulations establishing the U.S. Domestic Hemp Production Program on Thursday, October 31. The interim regulations became effective upon publication...more
On October 29, 2019, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) released its long-awaited interim rules allowing for the legal cultivation of hemp under the 2018 Farm Bill. With these rules in place, the USDA can start...more
On October 29, 2019, the US Department of Agriculture (the “USDA”) issued interim rules for the domestic production of hemp and requested comments on the rules over the next 60 days. The rules provide minimum requirements for...more
On October 31, 2019, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) published its eagerly anticipated interim final rule governing the domestic production of hemp, pursuant to the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 (commonly...more
On October 29, 2019, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) issued the long-awaited Interim Final Rule (IFR) to establish the domestic hemp production program, pursuant to the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 (commonly...more
The October 2019 issue of Sterne Kessler's MarkIt to Market® newsletter discusses three "lawful use" cannabis trademark decisions, a recent FTC settlement with a cosmetics company, and the USDA's newly issued interim rules...more
The United States Department of Agriculture recently released interim hemp production regulations that lay the groundwork for legal hemp cultivation. The interim regulations, outlined below, tackle state and federal hemp...more
Tuesday, October 29, 2019, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) released a draft of the much-anticipated interim rule on the Domestic Hemp Production Program under the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 (the...more
On October 29, 2019, the United States Department of Agriculture (the “USDA”) released interim rules for the Establishment of a Hemp Production Program that went into effect on October 31, 2019....more
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (“USDA”) released draft regulations for hemp production on Tuesday, giving farmers, states, and other industry stakeholders some much needed clarity on how the hemp provisions of the 2018...more
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has released a draft of its interim final rule establishing the U.S. Domestic Hemp Production Program, in advance of the rule’s Federal Register publication, which is...more
he Association of State Wetland Managers (“ASWM”) submitted February 5th comments to the United States Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service (“NRCS”) addressing the Wetland Conservation Compliance...more
On Friday December 7, 2018, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) published in the Federal Register an interim rule for the Highly Erodible Land Conservation and Wetland Conservation Compliance regulations of the...more