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Oil, Gas, Wind, and Agriculture: Can´t We All Just Get Along?

Shannon Ferrell

Summary

Increasingly, agricultural landowners are called upon to not only provide the world´s food and fiber, but also its fuel as well. Explosive growth in both fossil fuel and renewable energy means that landowners will be confronted by a number of opportunities and challenges in trying to take advantage of the returns provided by energy development while ensuring they can still use their lands for profitable agricultural operations. This session will discuss a number of the farm- and community-level impacts of energy development, how landowners can negotiate more balanced land-use agreements, and how landowners can avoid conflicts between mineral owners, wind developers, surface tenants, and others.

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