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Farming and Law: How One Sticky Lawyer Manages to Do Both
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Raised on an Indiana farm by an engineer dad who farmed after work, attorney John Schwarz has never been a stranger to long days and manual labor. He knows firsthand the struggles farmers face dealing with the USDA Farm Service Agency, grain contracts, solar leases, and all the farm-related legal issues in between. As a row crop farmer, he’s deep in the dirt with them.
This sticky farm lawyer describes his mission to help other farmers in a profession fraught with big risks. Listen as John tells us how he balances two full-time jobs, markets his practice by writing for farming magazines, and what he believes are the biggest challenges for farmers today.
Chapters
1. Farming and Law: How One Sticky Lawyer Manages to Do Both (00:00:00)
2. Describing an average day as a farmer and attorney. (00:01:49)
3. Deciding to be a lawyer for farmers. (00:07:16)
4. John’s family history in farming. (00:09:17)
5. How pursuing patent law eventually led John to ag law. (00:10:27)
6. Marketing his practice by writing articles for farm magazines. (00:17:19)
7. Buying his first farm at 19 on a land contract. (00:24:16)
8. How his farming experience has changed over the years. (00:24:48)
9. What non-farmers don’t understand about farming. (00:28:38)
10. The business issues farmers face today. (00:30:35)
11. The importance of succession planning for family farms and how altered tax laws could help. (00:34:06)
12. How soaring real estate prices affect farming. (00:36:38)
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