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Florida lawmakers are trying to make it harder to sue farmers. They say it s to prevent conflicts between existing farms and city dwellers who moved in next door. But environmentalists fear it s actually to protect the practice of sugarcane burning in South Florida, which has resulted in a federal lawsuit.
Lawmakers put Florida s Right to Farm Act into statute decades ago to protect farmers from conflicts created by new neighbors. Whether that conflict result from the smell of cow manure or the clucking of chickens, neighbors can t say the farm is a nuisance if it s been operating for a year or more and wasn t considered a nuisance when it started. There are exceptions, but those are limited.
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John Deere Fails to Uphold Right to Repair Agreement Signed in 2018 By Joel Hruska on February 23, 2021 at 10:02 am
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In September 2018, the Equipment Dealers Association signed an agreement with John Deere in which the company would begin voluntarily making repair tools, software guides, and diagnostic equipment available for ordinary farmers to purpose beginning January 1, 2021. We’re now well over two months into 2021 and, as a new report details, John Deere isn’t keeping up its end of the bargain.
The purpose of the agreement between John Deere and the EDA was to deal with the increasingly onerous software lockouts John Deere baked into its tractors. Farmers have been increasingly forced to visit a John Deere dealership for even trivial repairs because once-simple replacements now require dealer-authorized equipment to authenticate the hardware. The deal with t
Blueberry growers’ operating returns fell 32.4% between 2015 and 2019 because of rising imports.
The U.S. International Trade Commission on Feb. 11 ruled that imported blueberries aren’t causing substantial injury to U.S. producers. “As a result, the investigation will end, and the commission will not recommend a remedy to the president,” the ITC states in a brief statement.
The “Section 201” investigation was requested last year by the U.S. Trade Representative. The top U.S. blueberry imports are from Canada, Chile, Mexico and Peru. Under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada agreement, both Canada and Mexico have the ability to immediate impose retaliatory duties equal to the amount imposed by the United States.
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