WHAT CAN BE MEDIATED?
Agricultural mediation has helped resolve problems of all sizes for farms of all sizes, including:
- Loans or debts
- Right to farm complaints
- Neighbor complaints
- Labor problems
- Landlord / tenant
- USDA appeals
Mediation is also useful to farm families facing difficulties or planning needs involving:
- Custody and visitation (parenting plans)
- Separation and divorce
- Siblings / in–law out–law
- Finance and business planning
- Elder care and planning
- Unpaid bills / loan restructuring
- Small claims and credit
- Family farm succession and transfers
There are many situations in which mediation can be useful. Your local NYSAMP affiliate may have additional or different services available to you. Mediation is not appropriate in situations involving domestic violence or other threats to physical safety, or if people are not able to negotiate freely on their own behalf.