Guiding Farmers to Legal Resiliency Workshop

Agriculture educators and support persons want to help farmers navigate farm business structures, liability, farmland leases/ land issues, and other legal aspects of their farm businesses. In fact, 71% of agriculture professionals say legal questions come up at least once per week in the course of their work.

 

Unfortunately, most agriculture professionals don’t feel confident in guiding farmers to legal resiliency- they worry that they don’t know the law and don’t have accurate resources to offer. The stakes are high: 66% of farmers don’t have adequate insurance for their farm operation, just 7% have a written operating agreement or bylaws. Employment law confusion is endemic. 

 

We can fix this! With good training, agriculture support persons like Extension agents, agency staff, nonprofit professionals, and technical advisors can provide clear, accurate farm law information that reduces legal risk. Farm Commons’ “Guiding Farmers to Legal Resiliency” workshop provides a path forward. Farm Commons is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization exclusively devoted to helping farmers address their own business law challenges within their communities.

 

Guiding Farmers to Legal Resiliency is a full-day workshop that helps agriculture educators and support persons 1) understand the 12 most important things they need to know about farm employment law, land matters, business structures, liability and insurance, agritourism and adding value, 2) guide farmers to take at least one of our 12 basic steps to build legal resiliency.

 

Agriculture support persons will walk away knowing exactly how to stay within their abilities as a non-attorney while guiding farmer clients to legal strength and resiliency. (And, it is fun. I promise.) These workshops are NOT for farmers, however. We have another program for that and it’s called “Cultivating Your Legally Resilient Farm.”

 

We’re hosting 6 workshops for non-farmer ag professionals in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, and Missouri in September and October, 2019. SIGN UP NOW. 

 

In 2020, we will be hosting the Guiding Farmers to Legal Resiliency workshops for Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, New Jersey, and West Virginia. YES, each workshop is specific to each state’s laws!