A recent story has been making the rounds on ag websites about how a Canadian farmer agreed to a grain contract by texting a “thumbs-up” emoji. The farmer received a text message with an image of a grain contract offering
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The Janzen Ag Law Blog, published by Janzen Agricultural Law LLC, focuses on legal issues affecting the agricultural sector. It covers topics such as farm leases, agricultural technology contracts, regulatory compliance for farms and agribusinesses, environmental law related to agriculture, renewable energy projects on farmland, and emerging legal challenges posed by AI in contract drafting. The blog also addresses land use and zoning concerns in rural areas, carbon sequestration contracts, and the intersection of agriculture with new technologies and energy developments. It serves farmers, ag-tech companies, livestock producers, and agribusinesses by providing insights into contracts, litigation, and regulatory matters specific to agriculture.
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Ag Data Collection for the USDA's Climate-Smart Commodities
By Todd Janzen
The USDA’s Partnership for Climate-Smart Commodities program represents an investment of over $3.1 billion into US agriculture. The statistics for the program huge: USDA selected 141 proposals from corporations, non-profits, and universities were selected to study ways to increase climate-smart…
Understanding the Legal Issues for AI in Agriculture
By Todd Janzen
FBN recently unveiled “Norm,” an artificial intelligence (AI) advisor for FBN members. Norm may be their first dedicated artificial intelligence platform for farmers, but it will certainly not be the last. AI is definitely on the rise in…
Five Areas of Law to Update to Pave the Way for Autonomous Farm Equipment
By Todd Janzen
Autonomous farming machines are coming. John Deere now sells an autonomous 8R tractor. Various companies offer large, commercial sized unmanned Ariel vehicles (UAVs) that can autonomously apply pesticides. Lely sells robotic milking machines. Some farmers may lament the loss of…
Five Ways ChatGPT Will Change Agriculture
By Todd Janzen
ChatGPT is all over the news lately. If you missed it, ChatGPT is a form of artificial intelligence (AI) operated by OpenAI. ChatGPT is trained on data from various sources, including books, articles, websites, and other publicly available text type…
The Digitalization of Grain Contracts
By Todd Janzen
At the recent American Ag Law Association conference, I presented on a panel on how grain trading is moving from paper to digital contracting at all points in the supply chain. This post is a summary of that presentation.
The…
Who Owns "Pore Space" Deep Under Your Land?
By Todd Janzen
Most agricultural landowners are familiar with the concept of “mineral rights.” Real property law has long recognized the right of a landowner to sever the surface rights with the subsurface right to extract minerals from the land. In legalese, these…
A Look at the Principles for Transparency in Ag Climate Markets
By Todd Janzen
Grower acceptance of soil carbon sequestration programs seems to be lagging, based upon my unscientific observations. There are many speculations about why this is true, including the minimal payments most programs are offering in exchange for somewhat lengthy agreements growers…
Tesla's Impact on Agriculture
By Todd Janzen
Tesla has now sold more than 3 million cars worldwide. There is no doubt that automotive manufacturers are shifting research and development dollars towards making more electric vehicles (EVs) in order capture some of Tesla’s growing market dominance in this…
Understanding the Scopes of GHG Emissions
By Todd Janzen
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has proposed a new rule meant increase the ESG information available to investors, but it is also causing some heartburn in agricultural circles due to the feared downstream effect. The SEC’s proposed corporate disclosure…