Agriculture

Issue Brief

Poultry and Waterways: Addressing Waste and Environmental Pressures on the Industry

In December 2025, a U.S. district judge ruled that several poultry companies in Oklahoma near the...
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Issues to Watch

2026 Issues to Watch

State legislatures across the South are gearing up for the 2026 legislative session, developing and drafting...
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Issue Brief

Lawsuits and Legislation: What’s Happening with Glyphosate-based Herbicides

Issue Brief by Senior Policy Analyst, Tom Opdyke | topdyke@csg.org In recent years, numerous lawsuits have been...
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Issue Brief

Keeping Farmland in the Hands of Farmers: How States and Individuals Can Protect Agricultural Land

Since the end of World War II, agriculture productivity in the United States has nearly tripled....
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Issue Alert

Utility-Scale Solar in the South

Solar energy is the fastest-growing source of power generation in the country. Though it represented less...
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Issues to Watch

2025 Issues to Watch

As the 2025 legislative cycle approaches, legislators across the South prepare and pre-file legislation to address...
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Issue Alert

Hemp Beverages: High Risk or High Reward?

The hemp industry has been growing in the last several years. Changes to federal laws in...
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Other

Question of the Month, November

What can states do about feral swine?

Policy Analysis

Restricting Foreign Ownership Of Land In Southern States

The conversation on restricting foreign ownership of U.S. land has grown in recent years as debates...
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