Illinois Family Farm Law Project is a collaboration of:

Land of Lincoln Legal Assistance Foundation, Inc.
Prairie State Legal Services
Farmers' Legal Action Group, Inc.
University of Illinois Extension

The goal of the Illinois Family Farm Law Project is to provide farmers with help with their current legal problems and to assist them in avoiding financial problems. For example, lawyers from the legal services programs can help a farmer with an immediate dispute with the government or with a lender. University of Illinois Extension will provide written materials and workshops to farmers who want to plan for and adapt their operations to the changing trends in agriculture. The legal services program attorneys may then be able to help farmers make the planned changes, for example, by drafting and/or negotiating contracts for marketing of specialized crops.

Some of the legal problems we can help you with now are:

• Federal Farm Program Issues
• Disaster Assistance
• Diversification
• Loan Restructuring
• Agricultural Credit
• Farmer/Lender Mediation

We want to help farmers with the most important issues facing them and the above list represents issues that have traditionally been critical to farmers. Times change and you may be facing a critical problem that is not listed here. Please call to see if we can help you with that problem. The list is not meant to be exclusive, we exist to serve the legal needs of the farmer. Even if we cannot help directly with the problem you have, we may be able to direct you to a resource that can help you.

Illinois Family Farm Law Project serves all Illinois counties except Cook.

Illinois Family Farm Law Project is funded by the Illinois Bar foundation.