Clinics and Workshops

Negotiations Program (farm mediation service) in partnership with Legal Aid of Nebraska, provides free clinics and workshops for farmers and ranchers.

Call the Farm Hotline to schedule an appointment: 800-464-0258

Free Farm and Ranch Succession Workshops

Nebraska farm and ranch families are invited to attend a free educational workshop focused on succession and estate planning. Hosted by the Nebraska Rural Response Hotline in collaboration with Nebraska Department of Agriculture’s Beginning Farmer Tax Credit and Negotiations Programs, Nebraska Extension, and the Nebraska Farmers Union Foundation, these workshops are designed to help producers prepare for the future of their operations.

• Estate and succession planning: key considerations, decisions, and available tools
• Transfer, death and tax complications including portability
• The use of LLCs in succession planning: buy-sell agreements and asset protection
• Options, lease rights, and preemptive rights
• Finance and management issues in succession strategies

Speakers: Agricultural Law attorney Weston Svoboda, and Jessica Groskopf, Extension Educator.

The Farm and Ranch Succession Workshop will take place:

• Curtis, NE– Mar. 11th – 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm at Nebraska College of Technical Agriculture Welcome Center (610 E 6th Street).

While the workshops are free, we kindly ask that you register ahead of time to help us prepare lunch and materials, made possible by local sponsors. To register or for more information, please contact the Nebraska Rural Response Hotline at 1-800-464-0258.

This event is based upon work supported by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, under agreement number FSA22CPT0012189.

Free Farm and Ranch Finance Clinics

These clinics are for farmers and ranchers and their families. They are confidential, one-on-one sessions with an experienced Ag Law attorney and Ag finance counselor. These clinics have been offered in Nebraska since 1989. In a roughly hour-long session, you are welcome to bring up whatever issues might be affecting your farm or ranch. In general, clinic discussions often involve estate and succession planning, financial and operational issues, beginning farmer programs, real estate and lease matters, fence law, property rights, farm loans and loan programs, and debtor/creditor law. Here is an opportunity to obtain an experienced outside opinion on issues that may be affecting your farm or ranch. Bring your questions!

The FREE farm and ranch clinics will be in these locations:

• Scottsbluff - Tuesday, March 3rd
• Norfolk - Tuesday, March 17th
• Curtis - Tuesday, March 31st
• Fairbury - Tuesday, April 7th
• Norfolk - Tuesday, April 14th

To sign up for a clinic or for more information, call the Nebraska Rural Response Hotline: 1-800-464-0258.

Nebraska Department of Agriculture and Nebraska Rural Response Hotline sponsors the clinics.