Generational Transition Program

Thank you to Midwest Messenger and Chadron Radio for covering the program assistance options offered through NGLC.

Nebraska Grazing Lands Coalition Offers Scholarships to Support Generational Transition in Agriculture

Agricultural Law attorney Joe Hawbaker, with Weston Svoboda, and Dave Goeller, Farm Transition Specialist, and Jessica Groskopf, Extension Educator, with Nebraska Extension will present a 4-hour educational workshops will cover the following:
• Estate and succession planning: considerations, decisions & tools
• Transfer, death and other tax considerations, including portability
• The use of LLCs in farm and ranch succession, including buy-sell agreements and asset protection
• Options, lease rights, preemptive rights
• Finance and management issues in succession planning

Transitioning a farming or ranching operation from one generation to the next, or even from one operator to another can be complicated.  The Nebraska Grazing Lands Coalition (NGLC) recently partnered with Nebraska Extension and Legal Aid of Nebraska to host two workshops on this important topic. 

Free legal and financial clinics are being offered for farmers and ranchers in July. The clinics are one-on-one meetings with an Ag Law Attorney and an Ag Financial counselor.

These are not group sessions, and they are confidential.  The attorney and financial advisor specialize in legal and financial issues related to farming and ranching, including financial and business planning, transition planning, farm loan programs, debtor/creditor law, debt structure and cash flow, agricultural disaster programs, and other relevant matters.

Transitioning a farming or ranching operation from one generation to the next, or even from one operator to another can be complicated.  The Nebraska Grazing Lands Coalition recently hosted a workshop, Enhancing the Grasslands of Nebraska Through Generational Transition in Hickman. 

The Nebraska Rural Response Hotline, together with the Nebraska Department of Agriculture Beginning Farm Tax Credit and Negotiations Programs, and the Farm & Ranch Project of Legal Aid of Nebraska, are sponsoring free 3-4 hour workshops for farm and ranch families.

Free legal and financial clinics are being offered for farmers and ranchers in August. The clinics are one-on-one meetings with an Ag Law Attorney and an Ag Financial counselor.

These are not group sessions, and they are confidential.  The attorney and financial advisor specialize in legal and financial issues related to farming and ranching, including financial and business planning, transition planning, farm loan programs, debtor/creditor law, debt structure and cash flow, agricultural disaster programs, and other relevant matters.

Free legal and financial clinics are being offered for farmers and ranchers in September. The clinics are one-on-one meetings with an Ag Law Attorney and an Ag Financial counselor.

These are not group sessions, and they are confidential.  The attorney and financial advisor specialize in legal and financial issues related to farming and ranching, including financial and business planning, transition planning, farm loan programs, debtor/creditor law, debt structure and cash flow, agricultural disaster programs, and other relevant matters.

The Financial and Legal Aid Clinics will be held as conference calls or Zoom meetings.  Join from afar, but still receive help from an ag attorney and financial advisor.  Call the Nebraska Rural Respone Hotline for an appointment.