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Avoid Common Insurance Gaps Between Tenant Farmers and Landowners

Sarah Everhart

Mar 30, 2016
2 min

Avoid Common Insurance Gaps Between Tenant Farmers and Landowners

By Sarah Everhart In a typical tenant farming relationship, the tenant farmer and the landowner commonly both have liability insurance coverage. But how can a landowner protect himself or herself from exposure to liability for the acts of the tenant? One simple protection for landowners is to be listed as an additional insured on a tenant farmer’s policy. A lapse in a tenant’s insurance coverage may expose a landowner to unwanted liability. If a third party seeks damages fr

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Is Maintaining Soil Fertility in Your Farmland Lease?

Sarah Everhart

Apr 22, 2015
3 min

Is Maintaining Soil Fertility in Your Farmland Lease?

By Sarah Everhart Does your farmland lease contain a provision allowing you to monitor and maintain soil fertility? Soil fertility, or the measurement of nutrients within a given soil, is a key to the value of your property. If your lease is silent on the issue of soil fertility, how do you know if your tenant is replacing the nutrients removed by crops each year? State law does not protect a landowner’s right to maintain soil fertility and to imply a duty on the part of the

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Farm Leases and Big Data: Issues That Cannot Be Settled By a Handshake Deal

Paul Goeringer

Mar 18, 2015
3 min

Farm Leases and Big Data: Issues That Cannot Be Settled By a Handshake Deal

This post should not be considered legal advice. Before we get started on the topic, I have to issue a nerd alert because I find most of the issues related to data gathered from precision ag, yield monitors, etc. to be utterly cool and dealing with the ownership issues of the data even cooler. With that said, on with this post. Earlier, Ashley Newhall posted an overview of legal issues associated with farm data ownership which may have gotten you thinking about these issues.

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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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Updated: What Do Landlords Need to Know About the 2014 Farm Bill?

Paul Goeringer

Sep 30, 2014
4 min

Updated: What Do Landlords Need to Know About the 2014 Farm Bill?

Last week, I posted on the need for landlords and farms with multiple owners to consider updating their power of attorneys with Farm Service Agency (FSA) to allow tenants or a single landowner the ability to make new farm program decisions. Today, let’s talk about what decisions landlords need to consider making with the tenant, making on his/her own, or just signing a power of attorney and letting the tenant handle. Landlords will need to think about reallocating base acre

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