By Emmy Powell
Communications Specialist

Farmers, ranchers and rural landowners are invited to participate in Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service’s landowner workshop—Owning Your Piece of Texas.

The AgriLife workshop will cover key agricultural law issues that may impact landowners, farmers and ranchers. Some of the issues include oil and gas law, water law, landowner liability, fence law and eminent domain, among others.

“Agricultural law is such an important topic for Texas landowners,” said Tiffany Lashmet, J.D., AgriLife Extension agriculture law specialist.

The workshop features speakers, including Lashmet,  AgriLife Extension Economist Dr. Blake Bennett and local attorneys from each area.

The program will answer many questions farmers, ranchers and rural landowners may have and will provide general guidance on key legal issues related to their property.

“Texas landowners—both those who have owned land for generations and first-time property owners—need information about legal issues that affect their property,” Lashmet said. “Texas is undergoing the most significant generational land transfer in history, resulting in an onslaught of new landowners who have either inherited land or purchased a property for the first time.”

Many state and federal laws regarding land ownership can be complicated, but this workshop can help cover and discuss key issues faced by farmers, ranchers and landowners.

AgriLife’s Owning Your Piece of Texas workshops are scheduled for three different dates.

Dates and locations for the 2023 workshops are:

  • March 13 in Rosenberg
  • April 14 in Dripping Springs and
  • 26 in Emory.

Attendees must register in advance. The workshop is $75 per person.

Click here to register.

All attendees will receive a hard copy of the Owning Your Piece of Texas: Top Laws Texas Landowners Need to Know handbook.

An online version of the course is available for those unable to attend in person. The online version costs $150.

Additional resources about small farms and ranches are available from Texas Farm Bureau at https://txfb.us/smallfarm.