By Todd J. Janzen, Partner, Plews Shadley Racher & Braun LLP The web has been abuzz the last few weeks with articles and editorials about the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) use of aerial flyovers to look for violations of the Clean... Read More
By Todd J. Janzen, Partner, Plews Shadley Racher & Braun LLP While most farmers go quietly about their spring planting this year, a storm is brewing over the Mississippi River Basin of which few are probably aware. I am referring to the legal... Read More
By Todd J. Janzen, Partner, Plews Shadley Racher & Braun LLP I recently attended a seminar with Tim Pastoor, a toxicologist from Syngenta and a leading expert on atrazine (also simazine and propazine), a popular farm herbicide used to control... Read More
By Todd J. Janzen, Partner, Plews Shadley Racher & Braun LLP A class action lawsuit alleging that the herbicide Atrazine contaminated various Midwestern water supplies has been settled. As part of the settlement , Syngenta Crop Protection, Inc... Read More
By Todd J. Janzen, Partner, Plews Shadley Racher & Braun LLP The Department of Justice issued a press release earlier this week: WASHINGTON - Freedman Farms Inc. was sentenced today in federal court to five years probation and ordered to pay ... Read More
By Todd J. Janzen, Partner, Plews Shadley Racher & Braun LLP The Department of Justice issued a press release earlier this week: WASHINGTON - Freedman Farms Inc. was sentenced today in federal court to five years probation and ordered to pay... Read More