"Smells like money to me." Whether or not any farmer actually said it, it's someone's  sardonic response to complaints about foul odors associated with hog production. But as town increasingly meets country in exurban Illinois, unhappiness about livestock odors is no laughing matter for farmer or homeowner alike.

Perhaps both sides got some good news in Country Mutual Insurance Company v. Hilltop View, where "an Illinois appeals court has rejected an insurer’s denial of coverage to hog confinement operators pursuant to a standard 'pollution exclusion' provision in an umbrella liability policy," as Kristine Tidgren reports in the latest ISBA Agricultural Law newsletter. Read her article.