Syndicated Conservation Easement Transactions: Internal Revenue Service Announces First Settlement
September 4, 2020
by Walter G. Wright, Jr.
The Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) in an August 31st news release announced what it described as: . . . the completion of the first settlement under its initiative to resolve certain docketed cases involving syndicated conservation easement transactions (“Transactions”). The IRS had previously…
Arkansas Soil Health Alliance Annual Meeting: February 25th - McGehee, Arkansas
February 17, 2020
by Walter G. Wright, Jr.
The Arkansas Soil Health Alliance has scheduled its annual meeting for February 25th. The meeting will be held at Hoots BBQ in McGehee, Arkansas. Topics to be addressed at the meeting are stated to include: Healthy Soils for Sustainable Cotton Soil Health Impacts on Nutrient and Water Cycles How…
Agricultural Conservation Easement Program: U.S. Department of Agriculture Publishes Interim Rule
January 22, 2020
by Jordan P. Wimpy
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 update the nation’s conservation programs which include: the Conservation…
Environmental Quality Incentives Program: U.S. Department of Agriculture Interim Rule Amendments
January 20, 2020
by Jordan P. Wimpy
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 the Agricultural Improvement Act of 2018, Pub. L. 115-334 (i.e., the 2018…
Crop Insurance Dispute Wrapped in Red Tape: One Farmer's Uphill Battle to Overturn Arbitration
December 19, 2019
by Devin R. Bates
A farmer who lost a crop insurance dispute at arbitration took his insurance company to federal district court, filing a motion to vacate the arbitration award. When the lower court split the baby, the farmer and the insurer cross-appealed. In a recently announced opinion, the Eighth Circuit sided…