LEASE & NONTRADITIONAL AGREEMENTS

In this section you’ll find information about farmland rental, long-term leasing and other strategies that can be creative and effective components of a farm transfer. In many cases, tenancy and gradual transfer of the farm business and assets are win-win opportunities.

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Estimating Cash Rental Rates for Farmland

An interactive calculator

Iowa State University Extension Service
2005

http://www.extension.iastate.edu/Publications/FM1801.pdf

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Farm Transfer Guide

Fact sheets, work sheets, check lists, and more

Marion L. Bowlan, ed.
Pennsylvania Farm Link
43 pages

http://www.pafarmlink.org/resources.html

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Farmland Transfer and Protection in New England

A guide for entering and exiting farmers; includes worksheets

Kathryn Z. Ruhf
The New England Small Farm Institute (NESFI)
1999, 124 pages

Order online
$12 includes s/h
http://www.farmlandinfo.org/farmland_preservation_literature/index.cfm?function=article_view&articleID=29905

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Holding Ground: A Guide to Northeast Farmland Tenure and Stewardship

A comprehensive guide that discusses rental agreements, long-term leasing, and other tenure arrangements; includes worksheets, sample agreements, and additional resources

Annette Higby, Kathryn Z. Ruhf, and Andrea Woloschuk
The New England Small Farm Institute
2004, 162 pages

Order online
$22 includes s/h
http://growingnewfarmers.org/main/bookstore/publications/

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A New Lease On Farmland: Assuring a Future for Farming in the Northeast

An essay on the changing nature of farming and farmers in the Northeast, with reference to leasing and other concerns

Susan Witt and Jay Rossier, Hildegarde Hannum, ed.
E. F. Schumacher Society
2000, 210 pages

http://www.schumachersociety.org/publications/essay_new_lease.html

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