Eldon L. McAfee
emcafee@bevinglaw.com
Contact Information: Direct Dial Office Phone: 515-237-1188
Mobile: 515-249-1706
Fax: 515-288-9409
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Education:
Iowa State University, B.S., Farm Operations, 1977
Drake University Law School, J.D., with honors and Order of the Coif, 1991
Experience:
Farmer, 1978 to 1988
Attorney with Beving, Swanson & Forrest, P.C., Des Moines, 1991 to present
Practice Areas:
Practicing primarily in agricultural law. In addition, general practice including, but not limited to, environmental law, business and commercial law, contracts, administrative law, appellate practice and zoning and land use.
Professional Memberships:
American Agricultural Law Association
Member of Board of Directors, 2005 to 2008
Polk County Bar Association
Iowa State Bar Association
Agricultural Law Section
- Chair 1996-97 and 2004-05
- Legislative Committee Chair 2007 and 2008
Environmental Law Section
American Bar Association
Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources
Admissions:
Iowa Supreme Court
U.S. District Court, Southern District of Iowa
U.S. District Court, Northern District of Iowa
Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals
United States Supreme Court
Presentations and Publications:
2011
Presentations:
Iowa Pork Producers Association
Iowa Pork Congress, "Iowa Environmental Regulations & Nuisance Case Update"
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Iowa Pork Congress, "Current Swine Contracting Issues: From Markets to Courts to USDA"
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Iowa State Bar Association Annual Meeting
"Update on Iowa's Corporate Farming Law"
Iowa State Bar Association, Commercial & Bankruptcy Law Seminar
"Agricultural Liens"
Publications
Iowa Pork Producers Association magazine and website
"Appeals court invalidates portion of EPA's CAFO rule" May 2011 p. 22
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"Contract feeders need to pay special attention to insurance" March 2011 p. 46
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National Hog Farmer magazine and website
"Iowa Complies with Environmental Law" Sept. 20, 2011
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"EPA Runs Flyovers of Iowa Operations" Feb. 28, 2011
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2010
Presentations:
Drake University Law School
General Practice Review Seminar - "Agricultural Law Update" – farmland ownership issues
including iowa corporate farming law, fence law, farm leases, wind agreements, manure
agreements, and ag liens
Iowa Cattlemen’s Association
“Federal EPA & Iowa DNR NPDES Permit Requirements”
Iowa State Bar Association Annual Meeting
“Current State Agricultural Environmental Issues”
“Agricultural Liens”
National Pork Producers Council, World Pork Expo
“Contracts”
Iowa Agricultural Youth Institute
“Iowa Law – Manure Application Regulation”
Iowa Association for Justice, Basic Skills Course for Newly Admitted Attorneys
“Contracts”
Iowa State University, Center for Ag Law and Tax, Ag Law Seminar
“Livestock Production Legal Issues”
American Agricultural Law Association, Annual Conference
“Agricultural Liens”
Iowa Corn Growers Association
“EPA & Iowa Farmers: Are Expanding Livestock Regulations a Sign of Things to Come?”
Iowa Cattlemen's Association Annual Convention
"What is a Discharge of Manure? The Lowell Vos Case"
Iowa Pork Producers Association
“GIPSA-Production Contract and Marketing Agreement Proposed Regulations for Swine”
“Environmental Regulations & Nuisance Update”
Click here for the outline.
Click here for Part 1 of the webcast.
Click here for Part 2 of the webcast.
Iowa Pork Congress, "Iowa Environmental Regulations & Nuisance Case Update"
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Iowa Pork Congress, "Contracts: Learning From the Experience of Difficult
Economic Times" Click here for the webcast.
Publications:
Iowa Pork Producers Association website
“EPA Requiring On-Farm Oil Spill Prevention Plans”
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“Iowa EPC Approves New DNR Rules for Animal Feeding Operations”
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“EPA CAFO Guidance Summary”
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“EPA CAFO Settlement Agreement”
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EPA Clean Water Act Compliance Request - Federal EPA sends letter to Iowa pork and dairy
producers
-NPDES permits
View the article.
Federal Farm Bill Contracting Requirements - GIPSA enforcing monetary penalties
View the article.
Sioux County District Court judge rules that feed supplier's lien prevails over
bank's lien View the article.
2009
Presentations:
Drake University Law School
General Practice Review Seminar - "Agricultural Law Update" – agricultural liens,
wind agreements, ag case law update, manure application law, and
Farm Bill contracting requirements
Iowa Pork Producers Association
Iowa Pork Congress, "Iowa Livestock Environmental Regulations and Nuisance
Case Update" Click here for the webcast.
Iowa Farm Bureau Federation
“Federal CAFO Rule and Stockpiling”
Iowa Corn Growers Association
“Animal Agriculture and the Environment: Issues Update”
Commercial Bankers of Iowa, Bankers’ Annual Spring Conference
“Update on Agricultural Law”
Iowa State Bar Association, Commercial & Bankruptcy Law Seminar
“Agricultural Liens –Priority, Perfection and Enforcement”
Land O Lakes Purina, World Pork Expo
“Iowa Agricultural Liens - Livestock“
Coaltion to Support Iowa’s Farmers, Farming Matters 5
“Iowa Livestock Environmental Regulations”
Iowa State University Extension & Iowa Pork Producers Association,
Pig Cents for the Future
“Swine Contract Issues: Know Your Options When a Contract is Broken”
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Iowa Poultry Association, Fall Festival,
“Current Regulatory Issues”
Publications:
National Hog Farmer
“Concerned About the New CAFO Rules?” View the article.
Iowa Pork Producer Magazine
March, “Financial Troubles: Realistic analysis and planning are vital to
making the best of a bad situation” View the article.
Iowa Cattleman Magazine
February, “Lyon County jury finds that cattle feeding was not an odor nuisance”
Pork Exec, Legal Briefs
“Federal Farm Bill Livestock Contracting Requirements”
Iowa Pork Producer Magazine
November, “New Liquid Manure Application Law – A Closer Look” View the article.
Community Activities:
Drake Neighborhood Association
Member of Board of Directors, 1993 to 2003 and 2006 to present
President, 1999-2000, Treasurer, 2001-2003
Neighborhood Development Corporation
Member of Board of Directors, 2007 to 2010 |
