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Agricultural Law Updates for 2026: What Farmers and Agribusinesses Should Know

Agricultural Law Updates for 2026: What Farmers and Agribusinesses Should Know examines several federal and Illinois developments that may affect farmers, ranchers, agricultural la...

Resolving Agribusiness Partner Disputes Through Mediation

Resolving agribusiness partner disputes through mediation can help farm families, agricultural business owners, and rural entrepreneurs protect their business interests while prese...

Farm Business Disputes in Illinois: How to Protect the Family Farm Before Conflict Escalates

Farm Business Disputes in Illinois: How to Protect the Family Farm Before Conflict Escalates is an important topic for farm owners, agribusiness partners, and multi-generational fa...

Choosing the Right Business Structure for a Farm or Family-Owned Business

Choosing the Right Business Structure for a Farm or Family-Owned Business is an important decision that may need to be revisited as the operation grows, changes ownership, or prepa...

Ag attorney says risk management, enterprise analysis can help farmers navigate tight margins

An ag attorney says farmers should consider all available risk management strategies before making decisions in today’s tight margin environment. Austin Peiffer with Ag and Busines...

The Illinois Farmer’s Annual Legal Checklist: What to Review Each Season

The Illinois Farmer’s Annual Legal Checklist: What to Review Each Season can help farm owners address legal and business issues before they become expensive problems. Farming rarel...

Trademark Protection for Farms, Food Businesses, and Agricultural Brands

Trademark Protection for Farms, Food Businesses, and Agricultural Brands should be considered before a business invests heavily in packaging, signs, websites, merchandise, or adver...

Alternatives to Litigation for Illinois Farmland Disputes

In Illinois, farmers and rural landowners may use mediation or arbitration to resolve farm-related disputes outside of court. These options can be especially useful in lease, bound...

Summer Agritourism Legal Risks: What Farm Owners Should Know

Summer Agritourism Legal Risks: What Farm Owners Should Know is an increasingly important topic for farms that welcome the public. U-pick fields, farm tours, livestock encounters,...

Fields of Change: New CLE Series Explores Wisconsin Agricultural Law

Agricultural law reaches far beyond the farm, intersecting with environmental, municipal, employment, immigration, real estate, and business law. The new Fields of Change series he...

Mediation vs. Arbitration in Illinois: What Farmers and Business Owners Should Know

When legal disputes arise, going straight to court is not always the only option. Mediation vs. Arbitration in Illinois: What Farmers and Business Owners Should Know is an importan...

Alternatives to Litigation in Illinois Divorce Cases and Farm Divorce

For many families, the idea of going through a courtroom battle during divorce can feel emotionally and financially overwhelming. Alternatives to Litigation in Illinois Divorce Cas...

Farm Succession Planning Is Also Business Planning: What Illinois Farm Families Should Consider

Farm Succession Planning Is Also Business Planning: What Illinois Farm Families Should Consider is an important reminder that passing down a farm is not only an estate planning iss...

The Fight Against ‘Lawfare’: Trump Administration Seeks to Shield Farmers From Costly Environmental Lawsuits

From left-to-right: U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins; Country music star John Rich, USDA’s Special Envoy for American Landowners; and K...

Common Ground- What the 2026 NC Farm Act Means for North Carolina Agriculture

Alternatives to Litigation for Illinois Business Disputes: Mediation and Arbitration

Business disputes can quickly become expensive, stressful, and disruptive. Alternatives to Litigation for Illinois Business Disputes: Mediation and Arbitration, is an important top...

This Week in Agribusiness, June 20, 2026

ARC and PLC base acre programs, data centers and solar farms, Barchart data tools, biodiesel blends, grain bin safety and Prop 12 are featured this week.

Attorney says John Deere’s right-to-repair settlement would expand farmer access to equipment repairs

John Deere is working to resolve its right-to-repair lawsuit, and an ag attorney says it could lead to increased ag equipment repair access for farmers. Austin Peiffer with Ag and...

USDA Proposes Changes to AFIDA Rules and Enforcement - Are You In Compliance?

Farm Partnership Disputes: How Mediation Can Help Before Harvest Season

Farm Partnership Disputes: How Mediation Can Help Before Harvest Season is especially timely as summer fieldwork intensifies and harvest approaches. A disagreement over money, mana...

UADA news release: Fraud, Farm Bill get spotlight time at NALC’s Mid-South conference

By Mary Hightower University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture See “conventional” version of story MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Farm Bill feuding, land...

Rural Attorney Shortages and Legal Deserts: How States Are Expanding Access to Justice

Rural Attorney Shortages and Legal Deserts: How States Are Expanding Access to Justice examines a growing challenge facing rural America. Many rural communities do not have enough...

Risk management strategies to consider for your herd

K-State Beef Cattle Institute experts discuss protecting profitability amid market volatility and drought concerns.

Protecting Your Business Before Conflict Escalates- Early Involvement of the Litigator

When a business relationship starts to sour, many business owners hesitate to involve an attorney. They hope the situation will resolve itself, worry about legal costs, or simply d...