What legal issues are bubbling under the surface? Mid-South conference online bonus session will look at emerging issues, labor, immigation
Bonus session with CLEs for early-bird registrants.
May 3, 2022
By Will Clark
U of A System Division of Agriculture
Fast facts:
- Bonus session to examine emerging issues, immigration, labor
- Register by May 22 for bonus May 24 session
- Register online at: https://bit.ly/3rSvzAd
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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — What major issues are bubbling under the surface in agricultural and environmental law? Find out during a bonus online session of the Mid-South Agricultural and Environmental Law Conference.
Participants can join the bonus session by registering for the conference by the May 22 early bird deadline.
The bonus session will air online May 24 at 11 a.m. and provide two hours of continuing legal education, or CLEs.
Presenters for the first hour will include Ross Pifer, director of the Penn State Law Center for Agricultural & Shale Law, as well as National Agricultural Law Center Staff Attorneys Brigit Rollins, Elizabeth Rumley and Rusty Rumley.
The other hour of the bonus session will feature attorney Brandon Davis, a partner at Phelps Dunbar LLP, who will be discussing agricultural labor and immigration law.
Elizabeth Rumley, senior staff attorney at the National Agricultural Law Center, said the online bonus session will offer an opportunity to learn about the biggest issues facing agricultural and environmental law.
“The speakers for this session have decades of experience working in agricultural law,” Harrison Pittman, director of the National Agricultural Law Center, said. “With their experience and expertise, their session will allow attendees to position their legal, financial or farming business so that it is ready to handle these new issues and take advantage of emerging opportunities. This session will be held in conjunction with the ninth annual Mid-South Agricultural and Environmental Law Conference.
Mid-South Conference
The main conference, hosted by the National Agricultural Law Center, will be held on June 10 via livestream or in person in Memphis, Tennessee. It will feature other topics such as the foreign ownership of agricultural land, the future of dicamba and other crop protection products, and a look forward to the writing of the next Farm Bill.
Attendees at the main conference are eligible for CLE in states including Arkansas, Mississippi, Missouri and Tennessee, as well as with the American Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers.
Learn more and register for the conference here: https://bit.ly/3rSvzAd.
For more information on the National Agricultural Law Center, visit https://nationalaglawcenter.org/ or follow @Nataglaw on Twitter.
About the National Agricultural Law Center
The National Agricultural Law Center serves as the nation’s leading source of agricultural and food law research and information. The Center works with producers, state and federal policymakers, Congressional staffers, attorneys, land grant universities, and many others to provide objective, nonpartisan agricultural and food law research and information to the nation’s agricultural community.
The Center is a unit of the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture and works in close partnership with the USDA Agricultural Research Service, National Agricultural Library.
About the Division of Agriculture
The University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture’s mission is to strengthen agriculture, communities, and families by connecting trusted research to the adoption of best practices. Through the Agricultural Experiment Station and the Cooperative Extension Service, the Division of Agriculture conducts research and extension work within the nation’s historic land grant education system.
The Division of Agriculture is one of 20 entities within the University of Arkansas System. It has offices in all 75 counties in Arkansas and faculty on five system campuses.
The University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture is an equal opportunity/equal access/affirmative action institution. If you require a reasonable accommodation to participate or need materials in another format, please contact 479-575-4607 as soon as possible. Dial 711 for Arkansas Relay.
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Media Contact: Will Clark, wwc001@uark.edu
479-899-2673