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  • Considerations when Leasing Agricultural Lands to Solar Developers

    Solar leasing can be a sudden and substantial windfall for landowners, but farmers need to approach such deals with caution.  In July of 2019, Governor Cuomo signed The Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act, which sets a goal for New York State to reduce net carbon emissions to zero by 2050. This legislation and related federal…

  • How to Write a Custom Grazing Contract

    Strong, written contracts can prevent some of the Boneheaded Business Blunders I made in my early years of ranching. My previous two articles have covered every brutally specific detail that I should have included in my former land lease contracts. This month I’m running down everything that needs to be in a custom grazing contract.…

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