The Texas Agriculture Law Blog is an outreach project of the Texas A&M Agrilife Extension Service.  The goal of the blog is to keep you up to date on various legal issues impacting Texas agriculture.  It is specifically focused on water law, oil and gas law, leasing, property rights, right to farm statutes, and animal cruelty issues.  It hopes to provide a variety of information from current news stories, to recent legal opinions, to the basics of various legal topics.

About the Author:  Tiffany Dowell Lashmet is an Assistant Professor and Extension Specialist specializing in Agricultural Law with Texas A&M AgriLife Extension.  Tiffany grew up on a family farm and ranch in Eastern New Mexico, received her Bachelor of Science in Agribusiness (Farm and Ranch Management) at Oklahoma State University, and her law degree at the University of New Mexico.  Tiffany worked in private practice at a firm in Albuquerque, New Mexico, for four years before coming to Texas A&M in the summer of 2013.   Tiffany may be contacted via email at tdowell@tamu.edu or by phone at 806.677.5668.