Get Credit for Your ResearchBy Jeffrey Mollet & Cari Brett RinckerAgricultural Law, September 2025Submit your articles to the Agricultural Law Section Newsletter for publication!
Report From the ChairBy Garrett ThalgottAgricultural Law, September 2025A note from the Chair of the Agricultural Law Section Council regarding the upcoming bar year.
Resource CornerBy Nancy M. HandeganAgricultural Law, September 2025A quick look at some guidance the Farm Service Agency has provided, which can serve as a valuable resource in your practice.
Formalities for Family Farm Estate Plan – The Promissory NoteBy Alan E. StumpfAgricultural Law, April 2025This article contains checklists for practitioners to use when drafting the family loan component of an operating agreement buyout or land sale.
Rural Illinois Data Center Boom: Landowners, Are You Ready?By Ruth RobinsonAgricultural Law, April 2025Tech companies, including Meta, are pressing into unexpected parts of the country, on the hunt for huge swaths of flat land that have access to natural gas and transmission lines. Sleepy parts of Illinois, with large tracts of farmland that have nearby infrastructure to support the huge electricity demand that data centers require, are being shopped right now. The boom is on.
Legislative Analysis of S.2019/H.R. 4417: The ‘Ending Agricultural Trade Suppression Act’Food Law, October 2023The Ending Agricultural Trade Suppression Act would transform the current balance of regulatory authority between the states and federal government by eliminating virtually all state and local legislative powers to impose standards or conditions on the preharveset production of agricultural products entering their own borders.
Legislative Analysis of S.2019/H.R. 4417: The ‘Ending Agricultural Trade Suppression Act’Animal Law, October 2023The Ending Agricultural Trade Suppression Act would transform the current balance of regulatory authority between the states and federal government by eliminating virtually all state and local legislative powers to impose standards or conditions on the preharveset production of agricultural products entering their own borders.
Is a Tenant Farmer Really a ‘Tenant’?By Jeffrey A. MolletAgricultural Law, January 2023An analysis of an area of law once thought to be clear cut—farm tenancy.
Trespass: Understanding the Basics and Requirements for NoticeBy Garrett ThalgottAgricultural Law, January 2023Illinois adopted a law that makes it significantly easier for landowners to notify the public that entrance onto private property is forbidden. Unfortunately, there are many landowners that are still unaware of it and those that have heard of it often don’t know how to take advantage of it.
No Trust, No Authority, No Transaction? No Problem?By Jeffrey A. MolletTrusts and Estates, November 2022A look at the issues considered when an auctioneer brings a fully executed auction contract for a title commitment.
No Trust, No Authority, No Transaction? No Problem?By Jeffrey A. MolletReal Estate Law, May 2022A look at the issues considered when an auctioneer brings a fully executed auction contract for a title commitment.
No Trust, No Authority, No Transaction? No Problem?By Jeffrey A. MolletAgricultural Law, April 2022A look at the issues considered when an auctioneer brings a fully executed auction contract for a title commitment.
Will It Fly?By Alan StumpfAgricultural Law, April 2022A brief overview of the new revenue "Green Book" for the 2023 fiscal year.
Chapter 12 Bankruptcy Rates Have Increased in Most Agricultural StatesBy Nigel Key, Jonathan Law, & Christine WhittAgricultural Law, December 2021Researchers from USDA, Economic Research Service recently created a new measure of bankruptcy rates that allows for a more accurate comparison of bankruptcy rates across states and over time.
Lesson From the Tax Court: The Right Way To Do Conservation EasementsBy Prof. Bryan CampAgricultural Law, January 2021Kumar Rajagopalan and Susamma Kumar v. Commissioner shows how taxpayers can properly deduct the donation of a conservation easement if they have good planning, good representation, and good luck.
Farm Leases for Today’s AgricultureBy Jeffrey A. MolletAgricultural Law, October 2020As farms have grown, technology has become more prevalent, and farmland owners no longer reside on or are intimately connected with the farm, written leases have become far more common and prevalent in the agriculture space.
Guide to 2018 USDA Farm Bill ProgramsBy Lynne R. OstfeldAgricultural Law, October 2020A list of programs that help farmers funded by the Farm Service Agency, Natural Resources Conservation Service, or Risk Management Agency.
‘Right to Farm’ Gaining the Interest of the U.S. Supreme Court?By Jeffrey A. MolletReal Estate Law, October 2020Presently, there are a multitude of “right to farm” state court decisions on the books—and Indiana's right to farm statute could be headed to the United States Supreme Court.
