Best Management Practices - Includes Legal, Financial, Animal Health Info

There are certain risks associated with rental arrangements on pasture land.  These include financial, legal, transportation, and animal health-related risks and hazards.  It is extremely important that good communication occur between property owners offering pasture that can be rented and those who will be leasing the resource and moving animals.  It is also highly recommended that those involved in these transactions consult the information below as well as obtaining advice from a qualified attorney, accountant, veterinarian, and/or animal health expert.  This website is ONLY designed to create opportunities for the possibility of rental transactions to occur by INTRODUCING the two parties to one another.

Resource Links:

Pasture Rental Arrangements For Your Farm – North Central Region Farm Management Extension Committee: The purpose of this publication is to help tenants and landlords make sound decisions and develop workable pasture rental arrangements. The publication demonstrates how to determine the landowner and livestock owner contributions to livestock production and how to use that to arrive at agreeable leasing arrangements. A sample lease form is included at the end of this publication.  http://aglease101.org/DocLib/docs/NCFMEC-03.pdf


Document library with multiple leases/lease-related documents from North Central Region. Each lease and supporting document was written, reviewed and edited by member of the North Central Farm Management Extension Committee. Their goal is to help producers and land owners discuss and resolve issues to avoid legal risk. They also aim to guide both land renters and land owners towards informed and equitable decisions. http://www.aglease101.org/DocLib/default.aspx

Management Considerations When Relocating Beef Cows in Drought – From the University of Nebraska at Lincoln.  Includes information on planning, strategies, biosecurity/animal health needs, etc.  For Nebraska conditions, but much of the same information is important to Wisconsin producers as well.  http://beef.unl.edu/web/cattleproduction/relocatingbeefcows 

Grazing Contracts for Livestock - Grazing livestock for other farmers is a way to make a land investment return additional dollars to the land owner. It requires knowledge of livestock, but more importantly, knowledge of how to make money from grass. This publication discusses some of the issues involved with contract grazing, including various classes of livestock, equipment, sample contracts, some of the economics to consider and other resources available on the subject. http://www.scribd.com/doc/40790925/Grazing-Contracts-for-Livestock