Farming & Agriculture Law & Lawyers

Farming & Agriculture Law and Estates

Every farmer knows agriculture and food production is regulated very strictly. Due to the nature of your farming business, you need specialist advice, which combines aspects of business and private law.

If you need legal help regarding any aspect involving farming and agriculture law, complete your free legal enquiry form on the right, or click here.

When making any decisions regarding a farming business it is important to consider the implications on the business as a whole, such as the effect on support payments, tenancies or the overall tax position, to name just a few. That's why it is so important you find a legal firm that specialises in helping the farming community.

Law services provided by farming and agriculture lawyers

Lawyers practising in the area of farming and agricultural law offer a full range of legal services and advice tailored to farmers, growers, landowners, agri-businesses and other rural enterprises, including:

• Sales and purchases of agricultural and rural property including estates, farms, farmland, woodland, country houses and equestrian properties whether by auction, private treaty or tender.
• Secured lending on agricultural property.
• Agricultural tenancies.
• Residential tenancies and farm cottages including agricultural occupancy conditions and certificates of lawfulness.
• Business tenancies for office and commercial property lettings.
• Single Farm Payment Scheme, Environmental Stewardship and other agri-environmental and woodland grant schemes.
• Farm business restructuring including limited companies, partnerships, joint ventures, share farming and contracting arrangements.
• Access to land including private rights of way, public rights of way, commons and village greens.
• Planning and land development including clawback arrangements, options and pre-emptions
• Commercial contracts and the food industry.
• Renewable energy projects, including wind farms, photovoltaic solar panels and anaerobic digesters.
• Utility Company Wayleaves and telecommunication sites
• Covenants and easements affecting land
• Wills, trusts and administration of estates
• Lasting Powers of Attorney, Inheritance tax advice and succession planning

If you need legal help regarding any aspect involving farming and agriculture law, complete your free legal enquiry form on the right, or click here.

In addition agricultural lawyers provide specialist advice in the following areas:

• Disputes and Prosecutions
• Employment Law
• Divorce and Family Law
• Company and Commercial Law
• Environmental legislation
• Commercial and Residential Property
• Town and Country Planning

In particular, lawyers can assist in the following areas:-

• Buying, selling and finance for farms, agricultural land, country houses and estates.
• Farm business tenancies and agricultural holdings advice.
• Agricultural partnerships and business structures for farming enterprises.
• Telecommunication leases and utility wayleave agreements.

Agriculture and food

Farmers and landowners, together with the food industry, face many and varied challenges in today's world. Farming and agriculture lawyers provide effective legal advice tailored to meet the needs of all those whose livelihoods are based in the countryside or are concerned with food production.

Lawyers can act on the acquisition and disposal of agricultural property and country houses, as well as tenancy agreements, taking into account relevant planning matters, payment entitlements and quotas.

If you need legal help regarding any aspect involving farming and agriculture law, complete your free legal enquiry form on the right, or click here.

Agricultural land is often affected by infrastructural projects and we have experience of compulsory purchase, highways, telecommunications and energy projects including wind farms and pipelines or pylons. Lawyers can deal with agreements associated with mining and landfill together with environmental considerations.

Of particular concern to farmers and landowners are tax efficient ways of passing on property to the next generation. Farming and agriculture lawyers can have highly regarded private client advisers who can put in place the necessary wills and trusts to deal with inheritance and capital gains tax issues. Lawyers can advise on structures appropriate to individual businesses, whether partnerships or companies.

If you need legal help regarding any aspect involving farming and agriculture law, complete your free legal enquiry form on the right, or click here.

Rural areas suffer from a variety of disputes, some of which are unique to the countryside. Farming and agriculture lawyers can act on adverse possession, boundary, right of way, grazing, environmental and other disputes.

Providing legal advice to agricultural clients requires the integration of specialist property, business and private individual expertise with practical experience of the rural sector. Penningtons is uniquely placed to offer such services.

Agriculture and food expertise

Broadly speaking, farming and agricultural lawyers can provide advice and expertise with respect to the following issues pertaining to agriculture and food:

• agricultural tenancies
• commercial advice for small and medium sized food manufacturers
• country houses
• equestrian matters
• farm payments and quotas
• highways, telecommunications, energy projects and utilities
• letting of farm buildings
• partnership and company advice
• planning and environmental matters
• rural disputes
• sales and purchases of farms and estates
• taxation and succession
• Farming and agriculture

If you need legal help regarding any aspect involving farming and agriculture law, complete your free legal enquiry form on the right, or click here.

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