People who make their living in the agriculture industry have done business with a handshake for years. In today's fast paced, high-tech, regulation-burdened, environmentally challenging world, the complexities of maintaining and growing an agribusiness can be overwhelming. We combine our legal expertise with an understanding of the unique concerns of the agriculture industry to effectively represent agribusiness clients in all aspects of their business, including:

• Business formations, business forms, and problem-solving
• Ownership, shareholder, and transition or succession planning issues
• Environmental matters (including regulatory response and litigation)
• Employment matters
• Farm leases and operating agreements
• Grazing permits
• Protection of proprietary interests in equipment, goods, and crops
• Equipment lease and purchase transactions, including finance
• Land use matters and representation at proceedings
• Water rights acquisitions, sales, transfers, defense, and appraisals
• Wetlands and water quality compliance issues
• Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation permitting
• Prosecution and defense of timber-trespass actions
• Producer, crop, and nurseryman liens
• Condemnation
• Accounts-receivable management programs
• Development of sales documentation
• Enforcement of creditors' rights, including bankruptcy
• Credit workouts and reorganizations
• Real estate transactions

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