I recently have been talking to farm groups about how farmers can generate and sell carbon credits by building up carbon in their soils. I always start this discussion by explaining that a carbon credit can be generated for each
Carbon is number 6 on the periodic table and is made up of six building blocks—six protons and six neutrons. Contracts too, have their own building blocks. Because there are a flood of new contracts being offered to farmers to
In the past two years, I have reviewed more contracts related to construction of anaerobic digesters than in prior two decades of my career. For years, the financial case for building these mini power plants did not exist. The upfront
To generate a carbon credit, a producer must demonstrate a metric ton of C02 (or its equivalent in greenhouse gases (GHG)) was sequestered in soil because of the farmers’ efforts. Seems simple enough, but there is usually another requirement called “additionality”
I was recently interviewed by Tim Roy, ASA Capitale Analytics, for The Journal of the International Machinery & Technical Specialties Committee of the American Society of Appraisers (The MTS Journal). The interview focused on ag tech in row crop machinery
For years, farmers have asked, “Who owns my ag data after I share it with an ag tech company?” This has not been an easy question to answer as a lawyer because: (a) data is intangible; (b) data can be
Farmers are given many reasons to collect ag data about their farming practices, but using that data in court rarely one of them. However, at a recent trial about crop damage, we proved just how useful ag data can be
A reporter for a national publication called me recently to ask some ag data questions. One of his questions was: Who is the ag data watchdog for farmers? Stated differently, who is looking out for farmers to make sure their
Real property law is probably the most antiquated of all legal subjects. Many legal subject matters have been through periods of modernization, when lawyers, judges, and legislatures worked together to update laws for the times. For example, commercial law was
In my last post, I discussed how unauthorized secondary uses of ag data, when collected for a different purpose, are privacy violations. This post looks at another concept from Professor Solove’s Taxonomy of Privacy—how “decisional interference” is a form of