DRAKE JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL LAW

Spring 2025
Volume 30, No. 1

ARTICLES

Drifting Towards Solutions: Examining Dicamba’s Volatility Issues in Modern Agriculture
Nicholas W. Brown

Navigating Today’s Tax Environment: Challenges and Opportunities for Agriculture and the Dairy Industry
Donovan G. Newkirk & Nicole K. Steiner

Rooting for Change: Rethinking Standing in Climate Litigation Related to Agriculture
Holly Russo, Danielle Gratz & Paul Goeringer

NOTES

Where Property Lives and Dies: How Iowa’s Adoption of the Uniform Real Property Transfer on Death Act Would Eliminate the Practice of Probate Law
Jack Lander

Wait, How Long Ago Was the Thirteenth Amendment? How the Most Egregious Modern Day Human Rights Abuse Is Affecting the World of Agriculture
Emily Murphy

Defend Our Fields: Farmland Preservation and the Future of America’s Arable Land
Nicholas Nyblom

Summer 2025
Volume 30, No. 2

FORTY-FIFTH ANNUAL AMERICAN AGRICULTURAL LAW ASSOCIATION EDUCATIONAL SYMPOSIUM

AALA Presidential Address
Jake Parker

AALA ARTICLE

PFAS in Biosolids and the Impacts on Agriculture
Michael Chambers, Jackson Schroeder & Brad Sugarman

AALA ESSAY

Mitigating Legal Risks from Using Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Precision Agriculture
Siegmar Pohl

AALA LAW STUDENT PAPER-WRITING CONTEST WINNER

In the Wake of Sackett: Unpacking the Supreme Court’s Latest Definition of “Waters of the United States”
Jake Hill

NON-AALA SYMPOSIUM PIECES

NOTES

AALA ARTICLES

The Loss of Chevron is a Gain for Agriculture: Exploring the Implications of SCOTUS’s Departure from Chevron in Agriculture-Related Industries
Ashley Beitelspacher

The Constitutionality of the Swampbuster: Balancing Federal Conservation Mandates with Farmers’ Property Rights
Carter Hartman

Why Courts Erred with ARPA Section 1005, and Ways to Improve Access to Credit for Socially Disadvantaged Farmers and Ranchers Going Forward
Isaac O. Strohman

Fall 2025
Volume 30, No. 3

FORTY-FIFTH ANNUAL AMERICAN AGRICULTURAL LAW ASSOCIATION EDUCATIONAL SYMPOSIUM

Conservation Easements and Surface and Groundwater Rights
Peter Nichols & Katherine Carter

NON-AALA SYMPOSIUM PIECES

ARTICLES

Roots of Justice: Reimagining Agricultural Land Ownership for Sustainability and Economic Equity
Maria Beaucage

The Current WTO Agreement on Agriculture and Paths Forward
Brice Boyd

NOTES

A Tough Pill to Swallow: States Struggle to Transparently Allocate Opioid Settlement Funds for Rural Addiction
Anna Olson

Hi-Tech Hoops: An Overview of Livestock Identification and Traceability Programs and Where We Go from Here
Jebadiah J. Schwager

17 States, a Growers’ Association, and a Berry Farm Walk into a Court: New and Enduring Challenges to H-2A Regulations and How to Bulletproof Farmworker Rights
Kelsey Sissel