There are many companies offering farmers cash to sign soil carbon contracts. What is in these contracts and should you sign up your farm?

I asked Chat GPT to draft a farmland lease. Here are the results and my analysis.

Online revenue management platforms for landlords are being challenged as price fixing tools. What will the implications be for tenant farmers?

The USDA is going to collect massive amounts of ag data as part of the Partnership for Climate Smart Commodities. How is all the data collected and how will it be used?

The Indiana Supreme Court is currently considering when an appeal of a BZA decision must be filed in order to be timely. The outcome of this decision will impact so many agricultural land use projects around the state.

The Court of Appeals recently handed down a win for our clients and for personal property rights in a conservancy district case.

In the waning hours of 2025, the Indiana Court of Appeals handed down an important victory to an Indiana dairy farm, affirming the dairy’s zoning approval and allowing construction to proceed.

Here are the top three issues I heard about at the ABA’s SEER conference in Washington DC that could impact agriculture in 2026.

Eminent domain is government’s ability to take private land for a public purpose in exchange for just compensation. Can the public purpose stretch to cover renewable energy projects?

Earlier this month, the D.C. District Court upheld the EPA’s 2019 rule exempting air emissions from animal waste at farms from EPCRA emergency reporting requirements.

Last year the standard for review for administrative decisions was upended (Indiana and federal level). Recently our Court of Appeals explained that this change does not apply to zoning appeals.

There are a number of agricultural bills being considered this session, including one which would impact livestock farmers across the state by requiring additional site inspections.

Competition for groundwater is leading states and counties to change the way they regulate subsurface water.

A series of recent New York Times articles have sounded the alarm about PFAS chemicals in biosolids being land applied as fertilizer to agricultural ground. Is the concern legit?