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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

 
What Statutory Protections Apply if Hunters Are Injured on My Land? 12 Oct 2021

by Tiffany Dowell Lashmet, Texas Agriculture Law Blog

 
Hunting Lease Resources - Image: KC Wolf Creek Ranch
Hunting Lease Resources 13 Sep 2021

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.
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.
Landowners Leasing Property for Hunting Required to Obtain License from the State 29 Oct 2019 With the fall comes opening day of several popular hunting seasons across the state.  For Texas landowners, this often means entering into hunting lease agreements that generate added income for the operation.  Under Texas law, a landowner leasing private property for hunting in return for any type of compensation is required to obtain a Hunting Lease License from Texas Parks and Wildlife  (“TPW”).  Note, this is separate from a hunting license that the hunter must possess.
Should your ranch be incorporated or not? 12 Jun 2019 Calf

One of the questions that comes across my desk from time to time from farm and ranch clien