College Park, MD – The Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics
(AREC) and the Ag Law Education Initiative will host two one-day workshops on
Jan. 22nd in Ellicott City and Jan. 29th at Wor-Wic Community College. The So
You Want to Own Farmland in Maryland workshops will be from 9:30 am to
3:00 pm.
The free program will cover those legal issues that Maryland landowners may
face. A grant funds the program through the Northeast Risk Management
Education Center.
The workshop will feature Paul Goeringer, a Principal Faculty Specialist and
Extension Specialist in agricultural law. He will address leasing, landowner
liability issues, right-to-farm law, fencing laws, livestock liability, and estate
planning. The workshops will also involve research related to solar development
by Elizabeth Thilmany, a Faculty Specialist in AREC.
“These workshops will be a great opportunity for landowners and other
professionals in rural areas to learn about some of the basic legal issues that
many deal with daily. They can understand their rights and responsibilities
whether they are involved in agriculture or own land in a rural area,” said
Goeringer.
Lunch is provided with the workshops. Each workshop will begin at 9 am with a
check-in, and the workshops will run from 9:30 am to 3:30 pm. The dates and
locations are:
- January 22, Central Maryland Research and Education Center, 4240 Folly
Quarter Road, Bldg 671, Ellicott City, MD 21042, and - January 29, Wor-Wic Community College, 103 Fulton Owen Hall, 6573 Walston
Switch Rd, Salisbury, MD 21804.
Participants will receive copies of Extension fact sheets and other valuable
documents as a part of the workshop series.
For more information or to register, go to https://agrisk.umd.edu/events. For
more information, please contact Paul Goeringer at lgoering@umd.edu.
This is material is based upon work supported by USDA/NIFA under Award Number 2023-70027-40447.
