Past Efforts and Accomplishments from 2009 - 2010 

Some of the Legal Foundation’s accomplishments are listed below:  

Seminars, Publications, and/ or Speaking Engagements:

County FB Annual Meetings (Guest Speaker)

• Cheyenne County (August)
• Marshall County (Oct.)
• Ness County (Oct.)
• Sherman County (Sept.)
• Sheridan County (August)
• Rawlins County (August)
• Washington County (August)

KFB Annual Meeting

• Workshop – “Farming Under Attack” – over 70 attendees
• Spoke to KFB Masters Program

KFB Grain & Feed Committee

• Grain Elevator defaults - Manhattan, Ks. (March)

KFB County Coordinators

• Phone conference – Update on KFB Legal Foundation (July)

KFB Women’s Conference

• Agricultural Law Update (April)

Wind Energy Seminars

• Decatur County – Atwood (Nov. 2008)
• Hodgeman County – Jetmore (Nov. 2008)
• Kingman County – Willowdale (Dec. 2008)
• Kiowa County – Greensburg (Jan.)
• Lyons County – Redding (Jan.)
• Hodgeman County – Jetmore (Feb.)
• Gray County – Cimarron (Feb.)
• Russell County – Russell (Feb.)
• Reno County – Haven (March)
• Comanche County – Coldwater (March)
• Northwest Kansas Energy meeting – Colby (April)
• Kingman – Meeting with representatives of five coalition (landowner groups) (April)
• Thomas County – Colby (April)
• Sumner County – Wellington (May)
• Rush County – Lacrosse (May)
• Sheridan County – Hoxie (May)
• Smith County – Smith Center (Sept.)
• K-State (FB Collegiate Group) (Nov.)
• Rooks County – Plainville (Dec.)
• Marshall County – Summerville (Jan. 2010)

Annual Hay and Forage Meeting

• Risk Liability – Manhattan (Jan.)

Kansas Department of Commerce

• Presentation – Agri-tourism and Risk Liability (Nov.)

Kansas Bar Association

• Elected President of Ag. Law Section of Bar Association
• Attended CLE committee meeting – Topeka, Ks. (CLE Committee Member) (Jan.)
• Initiated, prepared and hosted Ag. Law Seminar (Oct. 16, 2009 - Manhattan).  Over 70 attorneys in attendance.
• Preparing Ag. Law Seminar (Oct. 15, 2010 - Manhattan)

Kansas Renewable Conference

• Wind Energy Leasing – presenter (Oct.)

Governors Wind Energy Task Force

• Wichita, Ks (Dec. 2008)
• Topeka, Ks. (Sept.)

KFB Masters Program

• Spoke to participants at Day at the Statehouse Topeka (Feb.)
• Worked with participants on final test (May)

Women Managing the Farm Series

• Hutchinson – Agricultural Law Update (Feb.)
• Topeka – Agricultural Law Update (Sponsored by Shawnee County FB) (March)

Agri-tourism

• Chanute, Ks.  (Feb.)
• Junction City, Ks. (Feb.)
• Great Bend (March)
• Concordia (Feb. 2010)

Chautauqua County FB

• Guest Panelist / Leases: Hunting,           Farm, Wind & Oil and Gas - Sedan (March)

Shawnee Conservation District

• Presentation – Fence Law, Urban Sprawl, Eminent Domain & Ag. Law Update (Oct.)

Sedgwick County FB

• Meeting with the Board (March)

Wyandotte County FB

• Workshop guest speaker (Jan.)

KFB Grain and Feed Committee

• Grain Elevator Insolvency (Feb.)

District Administrators Meeting

• Wichita, Ks. (Feb. 2009)

Governor’s Wind Energy Working Group

• Attend meeting in Topeka (Feb. 2009)

Oil and Gas Rights

• Columbus (Feb. 2009)

AFBF National Attorneys Conference

• General Counsel Meeting – San Diego (April)
• General Counsel Meeting – Savannah, Georgia (Scheduled for April 2010)

AFBF Link Conference

• Washington D.C.

Ø      Wind Energy - presentation (Sept.)

American Ag. Legal Association Conference

• Williamsburg, Virginia (Sept.)

Agricultural Law Conference

• “Changing Seasons”
• Denver, Colorado (June)

Publications

• KFB Legal Foundation update for Kansas Living Magazine (June)

·         KFB Farm Leader Letter Articles – wrote over 25 Articles for Farm Leader Letter 

• KFB Blog – Wind Energy

Radio/Newspaper

• Topeka Capital Journal – Article covering Shawnee Conservation District meeting (Nov.)

                                                                                                                                                           AFBF (LINC) – Conference calls

• Local Government (zoning regulations)
• Endangered Species

KIOGA

• Good Neighbor Initiative – meeting with KIOGA and KLA representatives - Topeka (August)

Advocacy:

Amicus Curiae Briefs filed

• Ks. Supreme Court - Wabaunsee County (Ban on Wind Energy) (Takings Issues – 5^th Amend.)
• Ks. Supreme Court – Federal Court Claims Questions regarding Rails-to-Trails (Takings Issues - 5^th Amend.) (July)

District Court Appearance

• Johnson County – City of Overland Park Annexation (Jan. 2009)

County Commission Appearance

• Barton County – Meeting with County Commissioners (Nuisance Resolution) (March 2009)

Irrigators Royalty Owners Association

• Provided assistance to formation of a new association (Feb. 2009)

Atchison County

• Attend County Commission meeting - Atchison (May)

County FB Request

• Logan County – Black-footed Ferret and Black-tail Prairie Dog

Ø      Attended Coordination Meeting in Oakley (Feb.)

Ø      Motion to Intervene        

• Clay County – Fence Dispute

Ø      Attended trial in Clay Center (Oct.)

• Atchison – Atrazine (city considering joining class action against the use)
• Marion County – County Appraiser removal
• Sedgwick County – Criminal charges for livestock at large

Ø      Attend meeting with Sedgwick County officials - Wichita (Dec.)

• Barton County FB – County Regulations (resolved)
• Shawnee County FB – Rails-to-Trails (pending)
• Marshall County FB- Rails-to-Trails Tax Appeal (pending)

Ø      Attend meeting with landowners and their attorney - Oketa (Dec.)

KFB Commodities

·         Grain Elevator Failures

Ø      Prepared White Paper

KFB 2^nd District

• National Heritage Area

Ø      Prepared White Paper (June)

KCPT – Kansas City Public TV

·         Wind Documentary (Proposed) –       meeting with TV staff            (September)

KFB Farm Talk (Radio)

• Assistance on – Barton County Nuisance Regulations
• Prairie Dog assistance – Logan County

 

2010 Plan of Action