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Before you sign: 7 tips for entering carbon markets
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Before you sign: 7 tips for entering carbon markets

Should your farm entity participate in a carbon market? In this publication, a Purdue University educator advises that farm managers should get answers to seven questions before signing up. ...

Crop Share or Crop Share-Cash Rental Arrangements for Your Farm
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Crop Share or Crop Share-Cash Rental Arrangements for Your Farm

The purpose of this publication is to help tenants and landlords make sound decisions and develop fair crop share arrangements. It addresses whether one should be using a crop share lease arrangement, deals with some...

Food Safety Regulations for Farmers' Markets
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Food Safety Regulations for Farmers' Markets

Food Safety Regulations for Farmers' Markets 8-page publication that explains food safety regulations so that market masters and vendors can keep consumers safe at farmers' markets....

Indiana Cash Farm Lease
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Indiana Cash Farm Lease

8-page publication that includes a blank cash lease form to help landlords and tenants put their agreement in writing and presents some explanations and suggestions for appropriate use of the form....

Indiana Farm Fence Laws
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Indiana Farm Fence Laws

This publication discusses several key points concerning partition (line) fences and related legal topics. It is a 6-page publication on Indiana Farm Fence Laws. Discusses rights-of-way and liability for animals....

Intellectual Property: Obtaining Patents, Trademarks, and Copyrights
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Intellectual Property: Obtaining Patents, Trademarks, and Copyrights

Intellectual property rights, including patents and trademarks, can protect business innovations. This 6-page publication describes different forms of intellectual property rights and explains how to obtain them....

Legal Aspects of Indiana Farmland Leases and Federal Tax Considerations
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Legal Aspects of Indiana Farmland Leases and Federal Tax Considerations

While an oral lease is still enforceable in Indiana, landowners and tenants are urged to have a detailed, written lease. Landlords and tenants are advised to know the Indiana laws that govern farmland lease arrangements....

List of Assistance and Regulatory Agencies for Starting in the Nursery Business
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List of Assistance and Regulatory Agencies for Starting in the Nursery Business

This publication is a listing of Federal and Indiana state government agencies that regulate various activities involved in operating a landscape plant nursery. ...

Negotiating Oil and Gas Leases on Indiana Farmland
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Negotiating Oil and Gas Leases on Indiana Farmland

Landowners in several Indiana counties continue to have an opportunity to lease or convey the rights to oil and gas exploration and production. Granting of rights to test-drill and to produce oil and gas is an important ...

Pork Contracting Considerations
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Pork Contracting Considerations

Vertical coordination in the pork industry will continue to increase for many reasons. Some producers with stronger balance sheets will be looking for risk management strategies that generate a stable (although probably ...

Private Property Rights: Rights, Responsibilities & Limitations
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Private Property Rights: Rights, Responsibilities & Limitations

This publication addresses frequently asked questions about property rights in land in order to dispel myths and misunderstandings and generate thoughtful discussion. ...

Renegotiating Fixed-Price Hog Production Contracts
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Renegotiating Fixed-Price Hog Production Contracts

This publication discusses risk-sharing negotiations, arbitration and how to negotiate long-term contracts. ...

Tax Treatment of Conservation Easements
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Tax Treatment of Conservation Easements

This publication discusses tax aspects of conservation easements from the standpoint of a forest landowner, the person selling or donating an easement. It is intended to provide you with a basic introduction to these ...

Understanding Your Estate in Indiana
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Understanding Your Estate in Indiana

A revision to EC-519-W, Understanding Your Estate in Indiana; revision is necessary to reflect changes in Indiana law since the June 2012 revision of this document. (The major change is the repeal of Indiana's inheritanc...

Value-Added Business Ventures Through Producer Alliances
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Value-Added Business Ventures Through Producer Alliances

4-page publication identifying the factors that producers should evaluate when considering investment in producer alliances...