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Agriculture and Food
Furley Page offers legal advice to individuals, families and organisations operating in the agriculture and food sectors. For specific details on each area of expertise please see below, or contact Nicola Hopper by emailing agrilaw@furleypage.co.uk
Farmers and Rural Land Owners
We have acted for farmers and rural land owners for many generations and understand their special requirements in relation to legal and financial advice. These include sale, purchase and letting of farmland and the multitude of property rights and interests incidental to the ownership of it. But our expertise in advising farmers and rural landowners is much wider than this as set out below.
Co-operatives and Producer Groups
We were at the forefront of the development of co-operatives and producer groups in the agricultural sector and continue to be committed to the provision of legal solutions which assist our clients in the food and farming sectors in meeting today’s challenges.
Business Advice for Agriculture Industry
We advise those in the industry (whether farmers, growers, producer groups or food processors), on appropriate structures for their businesses in relation to mergers, sales, dissolution and succession and in relation to the ever increasing body of legislation affecting the day to day running of a business.
Diversification from Agricultural Production
We also advise farm businesses diversifying from pure agricultural production into other areas including farm retail, food and drink processing and provision of equine and other leisure facilities.
Our areas of practice include:-
- Contract and share farming
- Agricultural subsidies including Payment Entitlement [PE] Transfers
- Environmental and planning controls
- Farm Business Tenancies and Agricultural Holdings Act legislation
- Joint venture, promotion agreements, options & conditional contracts
- Business structures (partnerships & companies)
- Tax and succession planning
- Marketing and distribution agreements
- Health & Safety legislation
- Business sales, acquisitions & mergers
- Dispute resolution
- Employment issues including gangmaster legislation
- Sporting rights
- Mineral abstraction agreements
Furley Page Solicitors is recommended by The Legal 500 for advising on agricultural law and matters affecting the agriculture sector.
For further information about our services in the agricultural and food sectors, please contact Nicola Hopper in the first instance on 01227 763939 or email agrilaw@furleypage.co.uk
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Furley Page is recommended by The Legal 500 for expertise in advising on Agriculture and Estates.
The Legal 500 2011 : Agriculture and Estates
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