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The Landowner’s Guide to Sustainable Farm Leasing

http://sustainablefarmlease.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/The-Guide2.pdf

"This guide is written to assist landowners in understanding their role as a landlord and a steward of the land, encourage open communication between landowner and tenant, and ultimately aid in the development of a lease agreement that is beneficial to the landowner, the farmer, the community, and the land."

Sponsoring Organization:
Drake Law School Agricultural Law
Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture

Sustainable Agricultural Land Tenure Initiative

http://sustainablefarmlease.org/

The Sustainable Agricultural Land Tenure Initiative's work focuses primarily on the relationship between sustainable agriculture and land tenure in the United States, with a focus on the tenancy landscape and correlating laws, publications, and organizations in the State of Iowa.

Sponsoring Organization:
Drake Law School Agricultural Law
Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture

Contracts, Notes and Guaranties

http://www.extension.umn.edu/distribution/businessmanagement/DF2590.html

This publication provides an overview of contract elements, types of promissory notes and their terms, and third-party agreements.

Sponsoring Organization:
University of Minnesota Extension
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