{"id":13856,"date":"2025-05-16T11:05:12","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T16:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/texasaglaw\/?p=13856"},"modified":"2026-04-17T15:09:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T20:09:25","slug":"may-16-2025-weekly-round-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/texasaglaw\/2025\/05\/16\/may-16-2025-weekly-round-up\/","title":{"rendered":"May 16, 2025 Weekly Round Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has been a wild few weeks for agricultural law news!\u00a0 Let&#8217;s get caught up on some of the biggest stories.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_13890\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13890\" class=\"wp-image-13890 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/texasaglaw\/files\/2025\/05\/IMG_1852-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/texasaglaw\/files\/2025\/05\/IMG_1852-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/agrilife.org\/texasaglaw\/files\/2025\/05\/IMG_1852-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/agrilife.org\/texasaglaw\/files\/2025\/05\/IMG_1852-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/agrilife.org\/texasaglaw\/files\/2025\/05\/IMG_1852-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/agrilife.org\/texasaglaw\/files\/2025\/05\/IMG_1852-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-13890\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Photo by Karli Kaase<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>* Live animal imports suspended along Southern border.<\/strong>\u00a0 On May 11, 2025, United States Secretary of Agriculture, Brooke Rollins, suspended live animal imports of cattle, horses, and bison through US ports of entry along the southern border due to concerns about the spread of New World Screwworm (NWS) in Mexico.\u00a0 At that time, the NWS had been detected 700 miles from the U.S.\/Mexico border. [Read press release <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usda.gov\/about-usda\/news\/press-releases\/2025\/05\/11\/secretary-rollins-suspends-live-animal-imports-through-ports-entry-along-southern-border-effective\">here<\/a>.]\u00a0 To learn more about the border closure and the impact it could have on cattle prices in the United States, <a href=\"https:\/\/southernagtoday.org\/2025\/05\/13\/screwworms-part-ii\/\">click here<\/a> for an article by Dr. David Anderson.<\/p>\n<p><strong>*US, Mexico enter into agreement for water deliveries under 1944 treaty.<\/strong>\u00a0 In an ongoing dispute over a 1944 treaty, Mexico has agreed to send up to 420,000 acre feet of water to the Rio Grande Valley by October.\u00a0 Pursuant to the treaty, Mexico must deliver 1,750,000 acre feet of water to the US every five years.\u00a0 If Mexico complies with this agreement, that will bring their total deliveries for the current five-year cycle, which ends in October, to 950,000 acre feet. To deal with the remaining shortage, Mexico will deliver additional water at the Amistad Reservoir and Falcon reserves.\u00a0 [Read article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2025\/04\/29\/mexico-texas-water-deal-donald-trump\/\">here<\/a>.]<\/p>\n<p><strong>* US Fish &amp; Wildlife Service proposes rule to rescind definition of &#8220;harm&#8221; under Endangered Species Act.\u00a0 <\/strong>The US Fish and Wildlife Service has published a proposed rule to eliminate &#8220;harm&#8221; from the definition of &#8220;take&#8221; under the Endangered Species Act. Currently, the Act prohibits the &#8220;take&#8221; of a listed species, and the definition of &#8220;take&#8221; is \u201cto harass, harm, pursue, hunt, shoot, wound, kill, trap, capture, or collect.\u201d The proposed rule would delete &#8220;harm&#8221; from this definition.\u00a0 The comment period is open through May 19, 2025. [Read proposed rule <a href=\"https:\/\/www.federalregister.gov\/documents\/2025\/04\/17\/2025-06746\/rescinding-the-definition-of-harm-under-the-endangered-species-act\">here<\/a>.]<\/p>\n<p><strong>* USDA drops criminal charges against Maude family in South Dakota.<\/strong>\u00a0 On April 28, 2025, the Trump administration announced that all criminal charges against the Maude family, farmers and ranchers in South Dakota, had been dropped.\u00a0 \u00a0The criminal charges arose out of a fencing dispute between the Maudes and the federal government during the Biden administration. [Read press release <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usda.gov\/about-usda\/news\/press-releases\/2025\/04\/28\/trump-administration-announces-us-government-has-dropped-criminal-charges-against-small\">here<\/a> and article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drovers.com\/news\/industry\/criminal-charges-dropped-against-south-dakota-ranching-couple\">here<\/a>.]<\/p>\n<p><strong>* Portion of lawsuit challenging Florida&#8217;s lab grown meat ban goes forward.<\/strong>\u00a0 In a lawsuit challenging the legality of a Florida law banning lab grown meat in the state, a federal judge dismissed several claims, but allowed one to go forward.\u00a0 The remaining claim alleges that the law gives an unconstitutional advantage to Florida producers over out-of-state competitors.\u00a0 The court dismissed the remaining claims, including one alleging that such state laws were pre-empted by federal approval of lab grown meat, holding that state bans are permissible despite the federal approval.\u00a0 [Read article <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/florida-cultured-meat-food-agriculture-business-29dab1b4068cc8d9787d537cde641b78\">here<\/a>.]<\/p>\n<p><strong>* Article on using gifting to manage estate taxes.<\/strong>\u00a0 Robert Moore at Ohio State University wrote a great article discussing the use of gifting as a tool to manage estate tax liability.\u00a0 This is a topic that is complex and can be confusing, but Robert does a great job of explaining the ins and outs of this strategy.\u00a0 [Read article <a href=\"https:\/\/farmoffice.osu.edu\/blog\/wed-04232025-336pm\/gifting-manage-estate-taxes\">here<\/a>.]<\/p>\n<p><strong>*Awards at District 1 ceremony.<\/strong>\u00a0 Our team was honored to receive a couple of awards at the District 1 Awards Luncheon this week.\u00a0 Lacrecia Garza, my saint of an administrative assistant, won the Service Ethic award and our Where&#8217;s the Beef Team (Dr. David Anderson, Dr. Davey Griffin, Pancho Abello, Lacrecia Garza, Casey Matzke, Karli Kaase, Scott Strawn, &amp; Tiffany Lashmet) won the Team Teaching award.\u00a0 I am incredibly fortunate to work with so\u00a0 many great people.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_13891\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13891\" class=\"wp-image-13891 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/texasaglaw\/files\/2025\/05\/DSC_6468-1024x773.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"483\" srcset=\"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/texasaglaw\/files\/2025\/05\/DSC_6468-1024x773.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/agrilife.org\/texasaglaw\/files\/2025\/05\/DSC_6468-300x227.jpg 300w, https:\/\/agrilife.org\/texasaglaw\/files\/2025\/05\/DSC_6468-768x580.jpg 768w, https:\/\/agrilife.org\/texasaglaw\/files\/2025\/05\/DSC_6468-1536x1160.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/agrilife.org\/texasaglaw\/files\/2025\/05\/DSC_6468-2048x1546.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-13891\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Photo by Kay Ledbetter<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Upcoming Presentations<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m catching my breath a bit next week and will be out at a sheep show with my kids the following week.\u00a0 After that, I&#8217;ll be hitting the road hard with lots of programs scheduled over the summer months.\u00a0 You can find my full schedule <a href=\"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/texasaglaw\/upcoming-presentations\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been a wild few weeks for agricultural law news!\u00a0 Let&#8217;s get caught up on some of the biggest stories. * Live animal imports suspended along Southern border.\u00a0 On May 11, 2025, United States Secretary of Agriculture, Brooke Rollins, suspended live animal imports of cattle, horses, and bison through US ports of entry along the southern border due to concerns about the spread of New World Screwworm (NWS) in Mexico.\u00a0 At that time, the NWS had been detected 700 miles from the U.S.\/Mexico border. [Read press release&#8230; <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/texasaglaw\/2025\/05\/16\/may-16-2025-weekly-round-up\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2444,"featured_media":13890,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,17,6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-endangered-species-act","category-estate-planning","category-water-law","category-weekly-round-up"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>May 16, 2025 Weekly Round Up - Texas Agriculture Law<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/texasaglaw\/2025\/05\/16\/may-16-2025-weekly-round-up\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"May 16, 2025 Weekly Round Up - Texas Agriculture Law\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"It has been a wild few weeks for agricultural law news!\u00a0 Let&#8217;s get caught up on some of the biggest stories. * Live animal imports suspended along Southern border.\u00a0 On May 11, 2025, United States Secretary of Agriculture, Brooke Rollins, suspended live animal imports of cattle, horses, and bison through US ports of entry along the southern border due to concerns about the spread of New World Screwworm (NWS) in Mexico.\u00a0 At that time, the NWS had been detected 700 miles from the U.S.\/Mexico border. 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