Agricultural Law

Moore, Clarke, DuVall & Rodgers, P.C. represents farmers and agribusinesses in Georgia and nationwide, providing legal services in specialized areas of the law unique to agriculture. These include:

• USDA farm income and price support programs,

• Payment limitations planning,

• Tobacco quota buyouts,

• USDA soil conservation programs,

• NAD appeals,

• Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act proceedings,

• Packers and Stockyards Act issues,

• Commodity sales and warehousing matters,

• Farmers' cooperatives,

• International agricultural trade,

• Farmland preservation,

• Food safety regulation,

• Confined animal feeding operations.

Our agricultural lawyers provide our clients with research, advice, planning, administrative appeals and litigation in these areas. They work hard to understand our clients' operations, federal and state policies that affect farming, and trends in the agricultural economy. They keep up not only with new legislation and regulations but with new farming practices and technology as well.

Our agricultural lawyers also work closely with their colleagues at Moore, Clarke, DuVall & Rodgers, P.C. who specialize in commercial law, bankruptcy, real estate, taxation, estate planning, labor and environmental law. The firm's lawyers understand how these areas of the law apply to farm and agribusiness operations. The firm represents agricultural clients on a variety of other legal matters including:

• Agricultural lending,

• Farmland sales and purchases,

• Cropland leases,

• Water rights litigation,

• Farm estate planning,

• Farm and agribusiness tax and business planning,

• Title, boundary and right-of-way disputes,

• Contract litigation,

• Farm labor law,

• New agribusiness startups.

Agriculture is the backbone of the Southwest Georgia economy and is important throughout Georgia. Nationally, agriculture is our country's single largest industry, feeding and clothing Americans and people throughout the world. Moore, Clarke, DuVall & Rodgers, P.C. strives to provide state of the art legal services to farmers and agribusinesses as they face the challenges of the twenty first century.

Click here to view a presentation on the 2008 Farm Bill - http://www.asfmra.org/pdf/Farmbillpresentation.pdf

Click here to view a presentation on Payment Limitations -  http://www.asfmra.org/pdf/Paymentlimits.pdf

Please contact Allen Olson at 229-888-3338 or email him at aolson@mcdr-law.com to discuss how our team of legal professionals can serve your legal needs.

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