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Working Alongside Receivers to Market and Sell Farm and Ranch Land 13 Oct 2026 How Chas. S. Middleton and Son supports receivers and attorneys in farm and ranch marketing and sales, with verified Waggoner experience and a broader ranch brokerage record.
Owning Your Piece of Texas: Key Laws Texas Landowners NEED To Know 13 Apr 2026 “For a few precious moments…I’m back in Old Texas, under a high sky, where all things are again possible, and the wind blows free.” – Larry L. King By: Tiffany Dowell Lashmet Professor & Extension Specialist Texas A&M AgriLife Extension The Texas A&M University System
Who Determines Ownership of Water Rights in Texas? 28 Feb 2022

by Tiffany Dowell Lashmet,

Understanding & Evaluating Carbon Contracts 17 Feb 2022

by Tiffany Dowell Lashmet, Texas Agriculture Law Blog

 
Ranch Barbed Wire Fence - by Eduardo Bergen, Unsplash
Property Line v. Fence Line 23 Feb 2021 The issue of fences being built off of property lines is a common source of dispute through-out Texas. Here is an interesting blog from Texas Agriculture Law Blog writer Tiffany Dowell Lashmet about a recent case involving property located in Reagan County.
2019 Rural Land Value Trends Report 20 Jul 2020

Each year, the Texas Chapter of the American Society of Farm Managers & Rural Appraisers publishes the Texas Rural Land Value Trends report.  This document provides helpful, interesting information for Texas landowners on both average property value and lease rates for agricultural land acros

Easements 101 27 Jan 2020 Learn about easements, which are a means by which a landowner grants another person the right to use the landowner’s property for a specific purpose. This blog post is an excerpt from the Owning Your Piece of Texas: Key Laws Texas Landowners Need to Know handbook, which is available for free download.
Texas Mineral Owner’s Implied Right to Use the Surface 04 Jun 2019

*Portions of this blog post were excerpted from the handbook Petroleum Production on Agricultural Lands in Texas: Managing Risks and Opportunities, available h

Texas Landowners and Eminent Domain 06 Mar 2019 Eminent Domain

In Texas, eminent domain has been a heated subject

One of the largest ranches in the United States, W.T. Waggoner Estate Ranch Sold after being offered for $725M 11 Feb 2016

You may have heard by now that the sale of one of the largest ranches in the United States has now been announced. After being marketed nationally and internationally for several months, we are proud to announce that Stan Kroenke has purchased the famous ranch.