Contracting:  Agricultural Contracts

1. Contracts for Swine/Poultry Production:  Freedom to Contract, Public & Private Goods

2. The Producer Protection Act
3. The Era of Contract Agriculture (Neil Harl)
4. The StarLink Situation (Harl; Ginder; et al.)
5. Genetically-Modified Crops:  Guidelines for Producers (Harl)
6. Are New Contractual Strategies Coming:  Why and What Might Be Included?  (Neil Harl)
7. Production and Marketing Contracts in the Pork Industry
8. Ag Production Contracts
9. Legal Issues in Production Corn & Soybean Under Selected Contractual Arrangements (Addink et al.)
10. Legislative Remedies for Contract Growers:  The Minnesota Statute
11. Contract Comparison in Specialty Soybeans (Ginder et al.)
12. Contract Farming Breeds Big Problems for Growers
13. Evaluating Poultry Growers' Legal Claims
14. Making Complaints Under the Packers & Stockyards Act---A Poultry Grower's Guide
15. Selling the Farm Down Contract Creek (Land Stewardship Newsletter)
16. LAND AND LIVESTOCK CONTRACTING IN AGRICULTURE: A PRINCIPAL-AGENT
    PERSPECTIVE
17. "Comment:  Fairness for Modern Farmers:  Reconsidering the Need for Legislation Governing Production Contracts."  Edward P. Lord.  33 Wake Forest Law Review 1125 (Winter, l998).  17,292 words
18. "Adhesion Contracts, Bad Faith, and Economically Faulty Contracts."  J. W. Looney and Anita K. Poole.  4 Drake Journal of Agricultural Law 177 (Spring, l999).   10,595 words
19. "Adhesion Contracts, Debt, Low Returns and Frustration:  Can America's Independent Contract Farmer Overcome the Odds?"  Glenn A. Hegar, Jr.   22 Hamline Law Review 213 (Fall, l998).   39,170 words
20. "State Regulation of Agricultural Production Contracts."   Neil D. Hamilton.  25 University of Memphis Law Review 1051 (Spring, l995).  21,505 words
21. "Why Own the Farm If You Can Own the Farmer (and the Crop)?: Contract Production and Intellectual Property Protection of Grain Crops," by Neil D. Hamilton.  73 Neb. L. Rev. 48 (l994)
22. Direct Farm Marketing links
23. Sample Ag Production Contract
24. Timber Sale Contracts
25. Hog Cash Contracts
26. Hog Cash Contracts:  Advantages and Disadvantages
27. Contracts, Notes, and Guarantees

28. National Contract Poultry Growers Association

29. Proposed Federal Bill (HR 2830) Introduced:  Family Farmer Cooperative Marketing Act of l999

30. The Plucking of the American Chicken Farmer

31. West Virginia Attorney General Sues Poultry Contractor/Company for Unfair Practices

32. Downloadable Poultry Contracts from Perdue, Mountaire, Foster, and Tyson

33. Legislative Efforts to Protect Poultry Producers:  Federal and State Levels

34. National Commission's Recommendations on Poultry Contract Farming

35. Another Viewpoint:  The Economic Impacts of Increased Contract Swine Production in Missouri

36. Iowa Attorney General Cautions Farmers on Grain Production Contracts.

37. Grain Production Contract Checklist (Iowa).

38. Livestock Production Contract Checklist (Iowa).

39. Will Farmers Organize?  Structural Change and Loss of Control Over Production

40. U.S. Pork Industry and Contract Production (V. James Rhodes, University of Missouri)

41. Farmers Use of Production & Marketing Contracts (ERS/USDA study; January '97).

42. Land and Livestock Contracting in Agriculture:  A Principal-Agent Perspective
43. Contract Law Basics (Texas)
44. Industrialization of Agriculture:  The Debate and Issues (variety of article links)
45. The Potential Impact of Increased Vertical Integration On North Carolina Grain Farmers
46. Farm Sales and Number of Farms by Type of Organization (U.S., l978-l992)
47. Extent of Farm Contracting in the U.S., by Farms, Acres Operated, and Gross Farm Sales (l993)
48. Ag Contracts by Production or Marketing
49. Considerations for Crop Contracts
50. Hog Wars:  The Corporate Grab for Control of the Hog Industry and How Citizens Are Fighting Back
51. The Environment (...and Factory Farms)
52. Ag Contracting Extension Publications at Purdue University
53. Corporate Farming Notes (Center for Rural Affairs)