Category Archives: agriculture

Lege Trend. New Eminent Domain for Animal Poop Pipelines. The bill does what?!

South Dakota’s House transportation Committee moved out HB 1184 (2018) that will move cow manure through new pipelines.

What’s the opposition to cow manure pipelines?

  • opposition rooted in the new grant of eminent domain authority
  • its expanding eminent domain to something that isn’t an utility & doens’t serve a public use

How would these poop pipelines work?

  • pipelines of animal manure from one farmer
  • would run through neighbors’ road ditches
  • to bring fertilizer to farmed fields

What do…

Lege Trend. Eminent Domain Compensation. New Calculations for Lost Profits for Businesses & Farms. Read the Bill.

Virginia Legislature is considering SB 809  that reframes lost profit for eminent domain property valuations by:

  • applying lost profits to businesses & farms
  • applies to a partial taking of land
  • the valuation calculation begins once the property owner is prevented from using all of his land or any property rights are taken.

Lege Trend. Oil & Gas Set Backs Lead to Initiative to Compensate Land Owners.

Where:  Colorado

What form is this compensation for private property owners taking? An initiative proposal

Why compensate private property becuse of oil and gas drilling set backs? The Colorado Farm Bureau proposed the initiative because drilling setbacks are causing farmrs to lose out on mineral interst royalties.

The Fence Post | Colorado Farm Bureau proposes initiative to protect private property rights

Rail Agency Denies Permit. Farmers want Eminent Domain Laws Changed in 2 ways.

Rural interests in Illinois are celebrating the Federal Transportation Safety Board’s denial of the Great Lakes Basin Rail.

Rural interests opposed the new stateline rail and say that eminent domain laws in Illinois should be changed in these 2 manners:

  • It should be more rare for eminent domain to be used against farm land
  • If eminent domain should be used against famr land it should be a higher standard.

State eminent domain laws that treat rural land differently…how many states would say…

LOCAL TREND. Cities Invoke Land Use Ordinances to Support Urban Farming

City: New York City

Ordinances: Councilman Rafael Espinal & Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams are calling for comprehensive urban agriculture plan, updated zoning and building codes, and an office of urban agriculture

Why is it necessary: Commerical Urban Farmers have a hard time getting permitted, being insured, and atracting investors. 

Is there more land to use for urban gardening in NYC? Yes,  14,000 acres of unused rooftop space that could feed millions

Wall Street Journal | Urban…

Lege Trend. Republican Resolution. No Eminent Domain for Private Gain. 3 Bits of Intel Unifying 3 Opponents.

State: Illinois

The project sparking the no eminent domain for private gain refrain: Great Lakes Rail

The Resolution, HR 437 (2017), hits on these 3 points:

  • private company using eminent domain
  • up tp $90 million permanent loss of agricultural revenue
  • endangers local wildlife

Illinois Valley News Tribune | Rep. Long bill opposes Great Lakes Rail, eminent domain 

What all was said after the TX Senate Eminent Domain Bill Package?

  • “Many [Senators] still consider the privately financed plan a boondoggle”

Austin Business Journal | Bills targeting Texas high-speed rail spark debate in Senate Transportation Committee

  • The bill prohibiting eminent domain for high speed rail has been sent to Local and Consent. 

Austin American Statesman | Bills stalling or stopping bullet train pass Texas Senate committee

  • Focused on the land owners experience. Including this quote from a member of the Board of Directors  of the  Texas and…

Show Me State. Show Me Property Rights. 3 Points informed: intel

  • demand responsible routing of utilities along property lines, boundary lines or section lines
  • require minimized land damage
  • Limits the amount of PSI exerted on soil

What supporters say: “protects our property rights from those who would steal our land for their own profit.”

How does the bill apply? It applies to all condeming entities BUT only to agricultural land.

Missouri HB 640 (2017)

Southeast Missourian | Mo. Agricultural bills