Farm Commons
100 episodes - English - Latest episode: 6 days ago - ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsWe explore real legal issues faced on farms every day, providing key knowledge and tangible solutions to help you grow a thriving agricultural business.
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Episode 75: Safe Collaboration Between Farm Businesses with Farmer Iriel
April 19, 2024 15:50 - 50 minutes - 29.3 MBIriel Edwards (she/her) is a seed farmer and owner of Dancing Radicle Farm in Alexandria, Louisiana. Her passions for seeding justice in our food system and dismantling private property feed her excitement for cooperative ownership as it relates to assets like equipment and land. In this episode, Iriel speaks with her peer Lilli Voorhies of Bumble Prairie Farm, and the two explore what it means to set up what Iriel calls “safe collaboration” between separate farm businesses. Throughout thei...
Episode 74: Collective Land Access with Farmer Sagan
March 22, 2024 20:29 - 22 minutes - 19.7 MBSagan Gray (they/them) is a co-owner of Bramblenook Farm, a small vegetable production farm located in Scituate, Rhode Island on the unceded lands of the Narragansett, Pokanoket, and Wampanoag people. Their farm business has been in operation since 2019, and started fresh on collectively purchased land in 2022. In this episode, they share an honest picture of the underlying power dynamics of collective land ownership, as well as navigating legal barriers as a transgender person trying to mov...
Episode 73: Could the Zoning Code put a Damper on Your Botanical Production Plans?
March 15, 2024 19:10 - 15 minutes - 13.9 MBDid you know that when a farmer starts drying herbs for tea or turning elderberries into syrup, a farm is potentially subject to different zoning or land use rules? In this podcast, Eva and Rachel help you avoid getting caught off-guard by exploring how and why zoning is a powerful decision making tool for navigating the legal transition point between growing herbal ingredients and making herbal/botanical products with regards to land use regulations. You’ll also hear important insights from...
Episode 72: How to Create Legally Resilient Labels for your Botanical Products
March 14, 2024 13:38 - 20 minutes - 18.6 MBWhat makes for a good label on your teas and tinctures? In terms of risk management, a good botanical product label is one that satisfies the FDA. In this episode, Eva and Chloe walk you through the 6 key elements of creating labels for your botanical products to help you market your products with confidence. This is the second episode of a special 3-part mini series on boosting legal resilience when making and selling botanical products. Check out the other episodes in the list below! Ot...
Episode 71: Navigating Botanical Product Regulation and Enforcement
March 11, 2024 16:26 - 30 minutes - 28.5 MBDo you make and sell botanical products like tinctures and teas from herbs you grow on your farm? Understanding who regulates your product and the rules they enforce with your production, labeling, and marketing can be confusing. In this episode Rachel and Eva break down 3 key areas of botanical regulation you should be aware of when producing tinctures, teas, oxymels, and more for sale to the public. This is the first episode of a special 3-part mini series on boosting legal resilience wh...
Episode 70: Revisiting Paying Wages as Salary on the Farm and Ranch
September 14, 2023 18:43 - 24 minutes - 5 MBIn honor of Open Farm Employment Law Week beginning on Monday September 18th, we are re-releasing our podcast episode on Why Some Farms Pay Wages as Salary. Why the return? Because overtime pay rules continue to evolve across the country, and farmers and ranchers need to be aware. For example, Oregon’s overtime rule changed this year in 2023, requiring overtime pay for farm workers. If you are required to pay overtime to workers on your farm or ranch, salary may be an option you want to exp...
Episode 69: Protecting Your Long-Term Lease
August 22, 2023 21:50 - 21 minutes - 5 MBThis episode is a great listen for people with, or pursuing a lease that will last for five or more years. A lot can change over time, and ensuring that your lease is valid even if the land changes ownership can bring great peace of mind. Rachel walks us through three levels of resilience farmers and ranchers can pursue when it comes to securing their lease. For a full transcript of this episode, please click here.
Episode 68: Managing Recreational Liability on the Farm
August 04, 2023 14:33 - 27 minutes - 5 MBIt's summertime and recreation is on the mind! The top 3 recreational uses we are seeing farmer landowners share with others are (1) nature recreation, like letting CSA members onto the farm for birding and hiking, (2) hunting access for friends and family that’s free or paid, and (3) foraging by individuals in the community. The big risk here is injuries and injuries can occur in many ways. In this episode, we share two strategies that are proactive and designed to manage the risk of visito...
Episode 67: The Truth About Crop and Livestock Insurance Premiums
July 07, 2023 18:55 - 14 minutes - 5 MBGiven the typical profit-driven nature of insurance, many farmers and ranchers approach crop and livestock insurance with caution. But is the caution necessary? In this episode we explore what sets crop and livestock insurance apart from other types of insurance. For a full transcript of this episode, please click here. Additional resources: Crop and Livestock Insurance Options for Diversified Operations This material is funded in partnership by USDA, Risk Management Agency, under award n...
Episode 66: Leasing Farmland to Your Farm Business
June 15, 2023 19:32 - 23 minutes - 5 MBHave you heard that it's good practice to lease your farmland to your farm or ranch business? Have you wondered why this is and what this would look like? Tune in because we've got answers for you! In this episode, we explore the advantages and disadvantages of this leaseback arrangement, including balancing the upside of the farm business having a “friendly” landlord with the reality that the business might want to pay a fair market rental. We also highlight tax issues and identify key docu...
Episode 65: Farmers Respond to Discrimination in Insurance
June 08, 2023 16:33 - 19 minutes - 5 MBFederally-subsidized crop and livestock insurance is an important risk management tool available to farmers and ranchers nationwide. However, some farmers may encounter barriers to purchasing a policy or filing a claim due discrimination on the basis of race and ethnicity, as well as other legally protected characteristics discussed in Episode 54: Addressing Discrimination in Crop and Livestock Insurance. When faced with this reality, farmers may decide that the best solution lies outside of...
Episode 64: Decoding Your Food Safety Liability Coverage
May 31, 2023 17:01 - 27 minutes - 5 MBFood safety liability is basically the risk of someone getting sick from the food you’ve produced. This is a risk that often lurks in producers' minds because even when doing everything possible to produce and sell safe foods, there’s always the chance something can go wrong. Insurance is a key risk management strategy here to both cover damages resulting from a food safety incident and provide peace of mind in the meantime. However, food safety liability policies are typically clear as mud....
Episode 63: Income Protection for Foraging Farmers
May 08, 2023 18:13 - 15 minutes - 5 MBWhile federal crop insurance programs generally do not provide coverage for wild-crafted products that farmers might sell alongside their cultivated crops, farmer-foragers still have options to protect their income from foraged goods. In this episode Bonita and Kate share feedback from herbalists and farmers from across the nation about legal tools and strategies, including the use of sales contracts, for supporting and even expanding their income from foraged goods. This episode builds on ...
Episode 62: Disabling Dangers on the Farm with Insurance Options
May 02, 2023 15:41 - 27 minutes - 5 MBInjuries to farm and ranch owners while at work are common. Accidents can happen with PTO tractor attachments, trailers that get unhitched, gates that malfunction on you, the list goes on. These dangers can lead to lost digits and limbs, which impacts the business and the farmer or rancher’s future livelihood. A key question for owners to ask themselves is: what kind of coverage do I have for work-related injuries right now? In this episode, we provide strategies for answering this question ...
Episode 61: Farm Transitions with Farmer Martha
April 21, 2023 16:07 - 22 minutes - 5 MBMartha McFarland (she/her) operates Hawkeye Buffalo & Cattle Ranch on her family’s farm in northeast Iowa. Her father started the ranch, but today Martha owns the business and operates it on land she rents from her niece. This arrangement took years of conversations with family, tax advisors, and attorneys- and it is ultimately what allows Martha to run the farm with full autonomy, protect the land, and preserve family unity. In today's episode Martha shares her story of finding a legal solu...
Episode 60: Navigating Farmland Access with Farmer Michelle
April 18, 2023 17:17 - 23 minutes - 5 MBStable long-term farmland access is essential for growing a sustainable agricultural business, but finding it is one of the biggest challenges facing farmers and ranchers today. Contributing factors to this pervasive issue are plentiful, and for Indigenous farmers, the difficulty of accessing their own ancestral lands adds an especially noxious layer. Michelle Week (she/her) intimately knows the heartache of navigating these trials, and she also knows the success of persevering through the u...
Episode 59: Creating a Cooperative with Farmer Katie Nixon
April 03, 2023 21:08 - 39 minutes - 5 MBKatie Nixon (she/her) is a farmer and local food systems champion who has been working with and for agricultural producers for over 13 years in the Kansas City region. She is a co-owner of Green Gate Family Farm and a founding farmer/member of The Kansas City Food Hub, a cooperative association founded in the state of Kansas in 2016. In this episode, Katie takes us on a journey through the big ideas, conversations, relationships, and paperwork the cooperative's founding members managed over ...
Episode 58: Farmers Dig In to Crop Insurance
March 30, 2023 15:03 - 22 minutes - 5 MBDeciding on which insurance policies to pursue can feel like a puzzle, and crop insurance is no exception. At Farm Commons, we believe that an informed decision is an effective decision. With the recent update to the federal Micro Farm crop insurance program, farmers and ranchers are building on their deep wisdom about what's best for their businesses by asking key questions to make an informed decision on whether or not to pursue coverage through this program. In this episode, Kate and Boni...
Episode 57: Understanding Liability Insurance Coverage and Claims
March 20, 2023 17:53 - 27 minutes - 38 MBDo you have liability insurance that covers the operations on your farm or ranch? If so, what's your understanding of what that insurance covers? Do you know what steps you need to to take if and when you need to file a claim? If you're not sure or you need a refresher, don't worry and tune in! In this episode, we explain what crop and livestock insurance and other liability insurance policies typically cover and what they don't. We also review what you can expect from the claims filing pro...
Episode 56: Strategies for Paying Yourself as a Business Owner
March 14, 2023 15:39 - 27 minutes - 37.6 MBFiguring out how to pay yourself effectively can be daunting- don't do it alone! In this episode, Kate, Eva, and Rachel explore the two main was business owners can pay themselves: owner's draw and salary. Each has benefits and drawbacks, and you may need to use one or the other depending on your business structure. Tune in to learn how to pay yourself in alignment with accounting responsibilities and your business and personal goals. Along the way we share real stories and insights into man...
Episode 55: Leaning into LLC's with Farmer Hannah
February 24, 2023 16:54 - 53 minutes - 74.2 MBHannah Hamilton (she/her) and her husband, Jim Buckle, are committed to raising healthy, vibrant soils and food at their farm in Unity, Maine. Almost a decade in business has taught them important lessons about business resilience, healthy relationships, and how to think about failure. In this episode, Hannah shares about The Buckle Farm’s journey toward forming a limited liability company (LLC), and why this formal business structure represents a renewed commitment to the land they love in ...
Episode 54: Addressing Discrimination in Crop and Livestock Insurance
February 08, 2023 22:49 - 21 minutes - 30 MBDiscrimination pervades many areas of life, and agriculture is no exception. While discrimination in the areas of farmland access and agricultural lending are well documented, discrimination in insurance is not often addressed. If you’ve encountered issues purchasing or updating a federal crop or livestock insurance policy, or had a claim denied when a peer with similar circumstances had theirs approved, you may be wondering if discrimination is at play. In this episode we take a hard look a...
Episode 53: Getting on a Roll with Payroll
January 10, 2023 15:10 - 23 minutes - 32.5 MBRunning payroll can be a confusing and frustratingly bureaucratic process for farmers and ranchers attempting to do it independently, but it doesn't have to be! In this episode we explore ways that farmers and ranchers can alleviate the administrative burdens of payroll. We discuss the pros and cons of solutions like payroll services, DIY payroll, and cross-farm cooperatives. Additional resources: Publication 51- Agricultural Employer's Tax Guide Farmers' Guide to Shared Labor Arrangemen...
Episode 52: Strategies for Covering Farm and Ranch Owner Injuries
January 06, 2023 20:06 - 19 minutes - 26.9 MBAs a farmer or rancher, you’re probably familiar with insurance for covering your workers from the risk of injuries at work. This includes workers’ compensation, which you may be required to have, and optional health insurance packages. However, what about your injuries? Are you covered in the case of injury from self-employment? Sometimes health insurance policies will exclude injuries that occur in the course of self-employment from coverage. This is where workers’ compensation comes in as...
Episode 51: Legal Considerations for Working Interviews
December 05, 2022 19:05 - 25 minutes - 35.1 MBWorking interviews, also known as trial interviews, can be an excellent way for both employers and prospective employees to learn if a job is the right fit. Tune in to learn about some risk management techniques to consider when using working interviews on your farm or ranch! In this episode we revisit the fact that anyone who does the work of a for-profit business is likely an employee, and we explore what that means for prospective employees during working interviews. Action steps: Read ...
Episode 50: Protecting Your Foraged and Wild Foods Revenue
November 21, 2022 18:21 - 19 minutes - 27.4 MBWhile Whole Farm Revenue Protection and the new Micro Farm Policy option provide more flexible crop insurance coverage options for small scale diversified farms, there are still crops that remain outside of coverage bounds. This is the case for foraged and wild foods products-- those ramps, wild mushrooms, pawpaws, nuts, and medicinal herbs growing wild but made available on the market by foragers. Many farmers and ranchers forage for these plants as there is a viable market willing to pay t...
Episode 49: Legally Sound Internships on Your Farm
November 04, 2022 14:27 - 19 minutes - 27.2 MBThe answer to questions like "Can I have an intern on my farm?" and "Does it matter what I pay them?" is actually quite straightforward. Before we get there, though, we clear the air about what an intern is in the eyes of the law and guide farm and ranch business owners through understanding whether their "intern" is actually a legal employee. Action steps: Read the Farmers' Legal Guide to Intern and Volunteer Programs This work is supported by the Farm and Ranch Stress Assistance Network...
Episode 48: Hiring Workers Through the H-2A Visa Program
October 17, 2022 20:29 - 30 minutes - 41.5 MBThe H-2A temporary agricultural program allows US farm employers to hire workers from other countries to fill labor gaps on their farm or ranch. It can be an effective option for some farmers, as farmworkers are increasingly difficult to find domestically. But the program comes with additional costs, legal obligations, and ethical considerations that interested farmers need to understand. Tune in to learn if H-2A is a viable solution for your business! Additional Resources: Is H-2A a Solut...
Episode 47: Crop Insurance Options for Diversified Farms and Ranches
October 11, 2022 19:40 - 23 minutes - 31.9 MBAs the climate becomes more unpredictable, crop insurance becomes more valuable and necessary. For diversified producers, however, it hasn’t been easy to find. The good news is there is a new crop insurance option out there just for you! In this episode we’ll get you up to speed on Whole Farm Revenue Protection crop insurance and the new Micro Farm policy that is available to farmers and ranchers nationwide. Executive Director and attorney Rachel Armstrong brings us through the Micro Farm cr...
Episode 46: Avoiding Discriminatory Questions During an Interview
October 10, 2022 19:43 - 25 minutes - 34.4 MBUnintentional or intentional discrimination can happen on farms and ranches, especially in the hiring process, but it’s something everyone has the power to manage and avoid. In this episode, we zoom in on avoiding discrimination during interviews with prospective employees. Staff attorney Chloe Johnson walks us through some of the dos and don'ts of interviewing, including questions to avoid. Further resources: Read the Farm Employment Law Essentials for your state Take Farm Commons’ Advan...
Episode 45: Why Some Farms Pay Wages as Salary
August 31, 2022 12:00 - 21 minutes - 29 MBPaying employees via salary, rather than an hourly wage, can be an enticing option for some farm business owners. It’s a way to avoid costs and simplify payroll. But this approach requires legal consideration. In this episode, we explain how paying employees via salary can be a strategic option for farmers and ranchers who are required to pay overtime. Under federal law, agricultural laborers are exempt from receiving overtime pay for hours worked over 40 in a week. However, as a farmer you ...
Episode 44: Farmland Leasing 101
March 14, 2022 00:00 - 49 minutes - 39.9 MBLeasing farmland is exciting. Getting onto farmland to begin or expand your farm business is a significant opportunity. However, the actual leasing process can be a bear — but it doesn’t have to be. In this episode, staff attorney Sarah Vaile breaks down what a lease is, how it functions, and the creative power you have to shape how it works. We also dive into New Hampshire farmland leasing laws as an example of how state law applies. Farmers and ranchers in all 50 states will walk away from...
Episode 43: Unlock the Potential of a Farm Employee Handbook
February 08, 2022 00:00 - 35 minutes - 27.9 MBIn this episode, we dive into the surprising efficiencies and improvements that farm employee handbooks can provide for your farm or ranch operation, featuring New Hampshire state specific examples. Whether you’re interested in establishing work expectations for bad weather, equitably managing requests for days off, or creating a disciplinary procedure, the farm employee handbook is a tool for it all. They set reasonable, realistic expectations up front, for everyone. They guard against disc...
Episode 42: Avoiding Discrimination in Hiring and Firing on New Hampshire Farms
December 21, 2021 00:00 - 59 minutes - 50.8 MBIn this episode, we explore a hard topic in employment law — discrimination in hiring and firing on the farm, specific to New Hampshire law. While many farmers would never consider their employment practices discriminatory, the truth is that legal discrimination can creep in on even the most well intentioned farms. This is because there are personal characteristics that are protected by law. These include federally protected characteristics of age, health condition, race, religion, ethnic id...
Episode 41: Choosing a Business Structure Together
September 23, 2021 00:00 - 40 minutes - 33.5 MBYour business structure can be a revolutionary tool for organizing towards farm goals, and this is especially the case when farming together in pursuit of meeting shared needs and goals. In this episode we explore top business structure options for folks farming together: the corporation, limited liability company, and the cooperative. We discuss the basic format and responsibilities of each, and provide key legal considerations to help you and your partners make the best decision together. ...
Episode 40: Farm Couples and Managing Stress through Paperwork
August 26, 2021 00:00 - 49 minutes - 31.7 MBMany romantic relationships and marriages are founded on a mutual admiration and desire for a farming lifestyle. Spouses farming together can live out shared values and goals through their work. Even where one person is the primary farmer, spouses often get pulled in to help out. Farming with a spouse, whether a true co-ownership or the occasional help, can make things more fun while navigating learning experiences and celebrating successes together. Of course, there’s two sides to every coi...
Episode 39: Farming with Family – Getting in and getting out
August 10, 2021 00:00 - 49 minutes - 41 MBWhen farming with family, whether relatives, spouses, or both, there are 3 key legal topics to discuss together that will set the stage for how the farm business evolves as family members enter (through marriage or otherwise) and exit (via career change, divorce, disability, or just because): (1) decision making, (2) role and responsibilities, and (3) ownership vs. employment. In this episode, we cover all this and more (including the role of a little something called a marital property agre...
Episode 38: Land Access Solutions in the Agrarian Commons Model
July 21, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 60.1 MBThis is an extra special episode where we explore alternative land access models with Ian McSweeney, Director of the Agrarian Trust. Ian has extensive experience in environmental education, real estate, farmland preservation, connecting farmers to land, and fundraising to support agrarian economies. In our discussion we cover the ins and outs of land trusts – what they are and what they do, agricultural easements – how they work and how they differ from conservation easements, and how the AT...
Episode 37: Social Justice through Non-traditional Land Access Strategies
June 11, 2021 00:00 - 51 minutes - 41.1 MBNavigating land access in the U.S. system of white property ownership that is legally focused on wealth generation and preservation is a hard row to hoe, but there are non-traditional strategies farmers and farm advocates pursue every day. Of course, with those strategies come legal considerations and in this episode we explore the legal mechanics at the intersection of donating land, crowdfunding money, and cooperatively purchasing land. Tune in to learn how the law weighs into these strate...
Episode 36: Getting into Gleaning
May 25, 2021 00:00 - 46 minutes - 36.3 MBIn this episode, we get into the subject of gleaning — the practice of collecting leftover crops from farmers’ fields after they’ve been commercially harvested in order to distribute that food to schools, food banks, and other recipients. This food recovery work weaves together important principles of food access and environmental sustainability, bringing about deep connections through community engagement around a good cause on the farm. However, to keep a good thing going, we need to mana...
Episode 35: Avoiding Discrimination in Hiring and Firing on the Farm
May 11, 2021 00:00 - 55 minutes - 44.2 MBIn this episode, we explore a hard topic in employment law — discrimination in hiring and firing on the farm. While many farmers would never consider their employment processes discriminatory, the truth is that legal discrimination can creep in on even the most well intentioned farms. This is because there are personal characteristics, such as age, health, race, ethnic identity, sex and gender related conditions, that are protected by law and if an employment decision is made on the basis of...
Episode 34: Growing Membership at Farm Commons
April 02, 2021 00:00 - 30 minutes - 24.5 MBIn this episode, we explore Farm Commons’ new membership program — why we have one, how it works, and how to join. You’ll hear insights into how our legal education work as a 501(c)3 non-profit organization has traditionally been funded over the past 8 years, and how the new membership program allows us to grow into our deeper goals of farmer accountability, long term relationship building, and increased access to farm law education across the nation. “Podcast intro” from Royalty Free by Ke...
Episode 33: Farm Commons’ Evolution through COVID-19
March 25, 2021 00:00 - 45 minutes - 33.7 MBIn this episode, we explain and explore the many changes we’ve made to farm law education at Farm Commons in response to limitations of the global pandemic. We dive deep into our core mission of empowering farming communities to resolve your own farm business law issues in an ecosystem of support, and how that mission guided us in thinking creatively outside of the “Zoom” box to create interactive, engaging, and actionable farm law workshops and a brand new website! “Podcast intro” from Roy...
Episode 33: FDA's Proposed Food Traceability Rule
December 14, 2020 21:45 - 10.9 MBShow Notes: In this episode, staff attorney Rich Lavigne explains how the Food and Drug Administration's proposed "Food Traceability" rule will impact our nation's farms. The good news about the proposed rule is that the FDA is actively trying to avoid making a sweeping warning statement on a food item -- remember the big romaine upset of 2019? Well, the FDA is proposing a different system of food traceablity to pin point the source of a food safety outbreak more accurately. Tune in to learn...
Episode 32: Three Steps Towards Legal Resilience During COVID-19
November 25, 2020 00:00 - 35 minutes - 27.9 MBIn this episode, we cover three key strategies for managing the risks of contracting COVID-19 in the course of your farm business. As folks move indoors this winter and gather for holiday festivities, the likelihood of COVID cases increasing is high. If you haven’t gotten COVID yourself, you might know someone who did, and there’s of course the risk of you getting it as the days go on and the case numbers rise. To help you manage that risk, we offer key information about disability insurance...
Episode 31: CFAP 2 Hightlights
November 11, 2020 00:00 - 9 minutes - 8.91 MBIn this episode, Rich Lavigne, FC’s Staff Attorney for Special Projects, shares key highlights of the Coronavirus Food Assistance Program round 2 of funding. Hint: more specialty crops and farm products are eligible for COVID relief payments! Tune in to learn how payments are structured and how this might be a useful support to pursue for your farm business. The deadline to apply for CFAP 2 is December 11th, 2020. If you’re interested in applying, tune in now and get your paperwork ready! A...
Episode 30: Four Questions to Ask Before Tough Conversations
October 30, 2020 00:00 - 42 minutes - 33.3 MBShow Notes: Farmers have so much power to create the farmland access situations, business partnerships, and customer relationships of your dreams IF you take the time to talk things through, including the tough stuff. Hard conversations are necessary – there’s no getting around it. It’s the elephant in the room that we all know is there and its presence grows as we tip toe around or avoid having those hard conversations. Now, we know that’s easier said than done so in this episode we share ...
Episode 29: Innovative Farm Labor Models
August 31, 2020 00:00 - 15 minutes - 13.2 MBIn this episode, Rich Lavigne, our Staff Attorney for Special Projects, shares innovaitve hiring tools farmers can utilize to meet their labor challeneges — hint: these tools are business structures! Tune into our conversation about the Innovative Labor Models project in collaboartion with New Entry Sustainable Farming Project, out of Tufts University’s Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, to hear about the potential of collaborative hiring models, how they can address labor chal...
Episode 28: Tips for Staring a Farm Business during COVID-19
August 04, 2020 00:00 - 31 minutes - 24.6 MBFarming is tough, and starting a farm business during a global pandemic can be even tougher. In this episode, our staff member Taylor Coons shares key tips to help you start up your farm business with strong legal footing during this tumultuous time. We cover important conversations to have when leasing land and setting up your business structure, as well as insurance insights and what it means to have workers on your farm, legally speaking. Be sure to check out the resources we mention in t...
Episode 27: Racial Discrimination in Farm Law
July 01, 2020 00:00 - 24 minutes - 16 MBAgriculture in the United States was established on, with, and by the system of slavery – being the enslavement of black people by white people. Since the first people from Africa arrived on U.S. shores in 1619 into the system of enslavement, the legacy of oppression, racism, and discrimination has been passed down from generation to generation. Today, we see this in many areas of agriculture, especially the law. In this episode, we take a hard look at discrimination in the legal areas of le...