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Holdover Tenant Required Pay Damages to Landlord for Not Leaving Rented Property at Time Lease Ends

Paul Goeringer

Apr 9, 2019
3 min

Holdover Tenant Required Pay Damages to Landlord for Not Leaving Rented Property at Time Lease Ends

The article is not a substitute for legal advice. See here for the site’s reposting policy. When an agricultural lease ends, usually no problems arise, and the tenant gladly turns the farmland back to the landowner. A recent case out of Illinois highlights issues that can occur when farmland has multiple owners, and a co-owner wants to terminate the lease while the other co-owner wants the lease to continue. The current tenant in this case continued to farm the leased prop

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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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Jun 15, 2015
5 min

Finding Land for Your New Farm

By Hannah Shear Throughout the history of agriculture, producers have found ways to increase the volume of foodstuffs produced from one acre of land. In 1950, an acre of corn produced on average 38.2 bushels (USDA NASS). Now, according to the USDA, our farmers can produce more than 147 bushels of corn from one acre. While this increased production capacity might have meant that farmers didn’t need as much land, the production increase was paralleled (and partly prompted) by m

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New Commodity Programs: Who Is Considered a Landowner?

Paul Goeringer

Jan 29, 2015
4 min

New Commodity Programs: Who Is Considered a Landowner?

I realize many of you have questions related to the 2014 Farm Bill and the new programs that USDA’s Farm Service Agency (FSA) and Risk Management Agency are working to implement. Good resources on many of the common questions exist; see AREC’s 2014 Farm Bill Page which is part of our Crop Insurance Extension page to find links to many of those tools. While many of those tools were developed for producers, we may overlook the fact that landowners/landlords potentially will q

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Announcing Rescheduled Leasing Workshops on Upper Shore

Paul Goeringer

Nov 7, 2014
2 min

Announcing Rescheduled Leasing Workshops on Upper Shore

On Dec. 2nd from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., farmers in the Cecil, Kent, Caroline, Queen Anne’s, and Talbot counties area will have an opportunity to learn more about the agricultural land leasing issues at the upcoming Farm Leasing Workshop. The workshop is sponsored by Agriculture Law Education Initiative, University of Maryland Extension, Maryland Department of Agriculture, and Maryland FarmLink and funding is provided by USDA-NIFA and the Northeast Extension Risk Management Educat

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2014 Maryland and Delaware County Cash Rents

Paul Goeringer

Sep 14, 2014
2 min

2014 Maryland and Delaware County Cash Rents

A few weeks ago, I blogged about the statewide cash rent averages for Maryland and Delaware, and that we saw that statewide cash rents had increased for non-irrigated, irrigated, and pastureland in both states. But how did county cash rent averages compare with the statewide averages? USDA-NASS recently released the county rental averages. One important note: many of you often ask me just what is a good cash rent price. I honestly have no idea what a good cash rent price i

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