Columbia Basin, Ephrata, WA | The lawyer doesn't have to ask, he sets his rates by what the market can bear. Lawyers in general price themselves to be successful, and for some reason farmers are expected not to.
I'm not "advocating that a business that is in financial difficulties not change salary structures." Quite the opposite, the way I was thinking about it. I was thinking more along the lines that if a farmer has been managing the farm well as a business, he will be controlling costs before his finances force him to. That's good business. Good businessmen generally have an above average standard of living.
It just so happens that at this time "controlling costs" can be substituted with "lowering rents." Now we've hit on the one single point where some LL's don't want their farmers to act like good businessmen.
Edited by Big Ben 1/10/2016 22:31
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