Agriculture

Roythornes is one of the UK's leading agricultural law firms with an in-depth understanding of the issues farmers and landowners face. From of main base in Lincolnshire we provide advice on agricultural law to a wide range of clients from farmers and landowners to corporate investors.

Our agricultural work is undertaken by a team with a national reputation, and highlighted in the leading legal guides such as the Legal 500, where we have appeared in the number one slot for agricultural work in the East Midlands for a number of years.

With specialists in property, tax, commercial issues and employment we offer the agricultural sector a complete approach to the challenges and opportunities they face.

Fully committed to the interest of the sector, we have been involved in government consultations, helped to reconcile UK and EU farming and agricultural law and contributed to landmark decisions on milk quotas, time limits, estoppels and land options.

In addition, we are one of the very few law firms within the country who have necessary expertise in agriculture and commercial law to advise on Producer Organisations and other collaborative ventures.

Geography is no issue to the work we do and whilst we are based in Lincolnshire, Cambridgeshire, Suffolk and Nottinghamshire, our agriculture clients cover the whole of the UK, including a growing number in Kent and the South East.

We can help with:

• Farming Tenancies
• The Single Farm Payment Scheme
• Common Agricultural Policy payments
• Dispute resolution, land tribunals and contractual issues
• Employment issues, foreign and 'gang' labour
• Tax, subsidies, trusts and inheritance tax for families involved in agriculture
• Prosecutions by the Health and Safety Executive and Environment Agency
• Specialist licences and sugar beet initiatives
• Crop damage and financial difficulties
• Mergers, de-mergers and re-constructions of agricultural businesses
• Producer organisations and cooperatives
• Environmental issues
• Renewable energy projects
• Collaboration Agreements
• Farm and agricultural land sales and purchases
• Diversification projects
• Planning
• Rights of Way issues
• Boundary disputes
• Succession planning for agricultural businesses
• Agricultural land development schemes

In fact whatever your agricultural law issues, Roythornes will have the answer.