Overview On June 30, the White House issued an Executive Order 14414 entitled, Advancing Regenerative Agriculture and Strengthening American Farm Resilience.[1] It represents the federal government’s launching of a major new initiative encouraging regenerative agriculture through tax incentives rather than direct regulation. It’s designed to tie into the IRC §45Z […]Read more »
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Overview As America marked its 250th Independence Day, public debate continued over an idea gaining traction internationally: the claim that people possess a fundamental “right to a healthy environment.” At first glance, the concept sounds difficult to oppose. Everyone wants clean air, clean water, and responsible stewardship of natural resources. […]Read more »
Overview A farmer receives an unexpected call from a site-selection consultant representing an unnamed company. The offer is several times the land’s agricultural value. The consultant wants a confidentiality agreement signed immediately and presents a three-year purchase option. The landowner wonders whether this is the opportunity of a lifetime—or the […]Read more »
Overview This week, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a trio of landmark decisions that offer an instructive, mixed baseline for defenders of private property rights, the separation of powers, and the rule of law. Across these three major rulings – Pung v. Isabella County,[1] Cisco Systems, Inc. v. Doe,[2] […]Read more »
Overview Facing compressed operating margins, elevated interest rates, and fluctuating trade dynamics, producers are increasingly forced to reevaluate their foundational business structures. Operational decisions that once seemed routine – such as signing a bank loan renewal or selling an underutilized combine – now carry sophisticated, sometimes hidden, tax and regulatory […]Read more »
Overview The reality on the ground for some rural practitioners is shifting rapidly under recently enacted Kansas House Bill 2444, effective July 1, 2026.[1] For rural Kansas attorneys who work in the criminal defense arena and don’t utilize available resources and outlets, the new law could create an exponential increase […]Read more »
Overview For generations, married couples in Kansas have operated under standard “common-law” property rules. This meant that if you bought an asset together—like family farmland—and one spouse passed away, only that spouse’s 50% share of the property received a “step-up” in tax basis to its current fair market value. The […]Read more »
Overview For generations, farmers and ranchers have viewed land and water as the lifeblood of their operations. Today, a water right is no longer just a tool for production – it has become a heavily targeted property asset. As the American West and High Plains navigate structural aridity, our historic […]Read more »
Overview For decades, Kansas estate planning and family law practitioners operated under a jurisprudential anomaly: the notion that a citizen could not contract away their future spousal homestead rights before marriage. Grounded in a strict reading of traditional common law, courts routinely struck down clear, unambiguous premarital waivers. They acted […]Read more »
Overview For decades, antitrust enforcement focused primarily on what competitors said to one another. Regulators searched for evidence of explicit agreements, secret meetings, price-fixing schemes, and market-allocation arrangements. But in today’s data-driven economy, federal antitrust authorities increasingly view a different concern as equally important: what competitors know about one another. […]Read more »