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Pasture Lease Agreement

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The landowner

The person or business that owns the pasture and is leasing the grazing rights.

For a business, use its registered name, including "LLC" or "Inc." if it has one.
Used for written notices.

The livestock owner

The person or business whose livestock will graze the pasture.

For a business, use its registered name, including "LLC" or "Inc." if it has one.
Used for written notices.

The pasture

Use the street address if there is one. For rural land, describe where it is, such as the road and nearest town, and include the state.
Describe the fenced area the livestock may graze, with any parcel numbers, and any areas that are off limits, such as hay meadows, crop fields, or the farmstead. You may also attach a map to the signed lease.
For example, "two stock ponds and a solar-powered well with a tank." Leave blank if there are none and water will be hauled.
The landowner keeps every right not given to the livestock owner. Choosing these makes clear that the livestock owner must work around them.

Grazing season

The livestock must be off the pasture by the end of this day, unless you allow extra days below.

Livestock and stocking

For example, "cow-calf pairs," "yearling steers," or "ewes with lambs." Leave blank for any animals of that kind.
An animal unit is a common grazing measure based on one mature cow with a calf. The lease defines it only for cattle, so choose head count for other livestock or if unsure.
In head or animal units, as you chose above. Unweaned young nursing their mothers are not counted separately.
A simple overgrazing limit. Leave blank to rely on the general rule against overgrazing.
Required for a brand or another way; optional for ear tags, for example "yellow tags marked RB."

Rent

Per head per month, per acre for the season, or the total for the season, as you chose above.

Fences, water, feed, and weeds

Includes keeping wells, pumps, tanks, and pipes working, or hauling water if the sources run short.

Animal health and checking

The livestock owner is always responsible for its animals. A landowner who agrees to look in on them does so as a courtesy.

Insurance

End of the season

Enter 0 if all livestock must be off by the last day of the season. Rent continues for any extra days used.
Leave blank to charge the landowner's reasonable costs and the rent rate, prorated by the day, instead.

Anything else

For example, a rotation plan between pastures, a bull or stallion rule, or a controlled burn. Write it as you want it to appear in the lease.

Governing law

Usually the state where the pasture is.

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