Day 1 of Agriculture Law: "Agriculture Law is the exceptions of laws for everybody else."
Question: What is the largest single polluter of Ground Water?
Answer: Agriculture Run Off
Question: What is explicitly exempt from the Clean Water Act?
Answer: Agriculture
Question: What is the most common form of work place injury in rural America?
Answer: Agriculture related accidents
Question: What is explicitly exempt from Workers Compensation claims?
Answer: Agriculture jobs
Question: Is an oral lease involving "Land" enforceable?
Answer: No...but for agriculture leases of agriculture land which are orally enforceable. (as are a ton of other AG oral contracts/modifications/etc)
Folks... pay your checkoff dues, pay your dues for all your Boards/Associations/etc. (soybean, corn, cattle, etc) and keep those AG lobbyists in DC cooking.