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USDA Releases 2019 Cash Rent Averages for Maryland and Delaware

Paul Goeringer

Aug 20, 2019
2 min

USDA Releases 2019 Cash Rent Averages for Maryland and Delaware

By Paul Goeringer and Nerice Millet-Williams This is not a substitute for legal advice. See here for the site’s reposting policy. USDA’s National Agricultural Statistic Service (NASS) updated data on cash rent paid by farmers in 2019. NASS collects this data from 240,000 farms across the United States annually through the Cash Rent Survey – data used by other agencies throughout USDA. The survey results can also give us an idea of what other tenants in the area may be payi

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Family Divided Over Ambiguous Crop-Share Lease

Paul Goeringer

Jun 8, 2016
3 min

Family Divided Over Ambiguous Crop-Share Lease

This post should not be construed as legal advice. Recently the Iowa Court of Appeals reviewed a lower court’s interpretation of a form crop-share lease with some modifications used by a corporation. The corporation in this case was made up of siblings and the corporation owned farm equipment and leased farmland to one of the siblings. This case highlights the need for clearly written leases, especially when the lease is a part of the farm transition plan. The corporation

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Frequently Asked Questions: Termination of Lease v. Eviction for Nonpayment

Admin

Jul 2, 2015
3 min

Frequently Asked Questions: Termination of Lease v. Eviction for Nonpayment

By Ashley Ellixson Every so often, one of us is asked: How much time does a farm tenant have to leave the farm property once the lease is terminated or when the tenant is evicted for nonpayment? The confusion is a common issue and comes up in discussion of farm leases frequently. Since there is a real difference between the two, I am going to clarify what Maryland law says about each of them and outline the procedure for both. Not only are these differences necessary for th

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Paul Goeringer

Apr 30, 2015
3 min

Can You Take the Corn Stalks With You?

Today, I am back harping on my favorite issue, agricultural land leases. A farmer recently told my colleague in another Western state that “this country would be a lot better off if more leases were handshake deals in the middle of a field.” Many of you may feel this way, but as I keep pointing out, handshake deals in the middle of the field do not always answer all the questions. One of those questions may be: Does the tenant have a right to crop residue when the lease is

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Frequently Asked Questions: Can I Use a Residential Lease to Rent Farmland?

Paul Goeringer

Apr 2, 2015
2 min

Frequently Asked Questions: Can I Use a Residential Lease to Rent Farmland?

This post should not be relied upon as legal advice. Before we start, let’s take a minute for a little review: the goals in leasing a house and farmland will be different. One is a place of residence and the other is a place an agricultural operation takes place on. Goals in a residence leasing relationship will be different than those in a lease for farmland. You should not laugh. Many new producers and new landlords make the common mistake of thinking they can just use a

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Developing Your Agricultural Land Lease: Updating the Rental Rate

Paul Goeringer

Mar 4, 2015
3 min

Developing Your Agricultural Land Lease: Updating the Rental Rate

This post is not intended to provide legal advice. I realize that we are roughly 5 months away from when many of you will need to give notice to terminate a lease or at least will want to make the tenant/landlord aware of your plans for 2016 (yeah I realize it’s early in 2015). Today, I want to focus on strategies to consider including in your lease to update the rental rate annually. Why would you want to update your rental annually and not continually pay the same rate yea

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