Legal Knowledge. Across the focus groups, the common emergent legal knowledge themes concentrated on tax laws, contract laws, leasing laws, property rights, water rights, government regulations, and environmental regulations. The importance of understanding government assistance programs and “not being late” was also emphasized. Participants mentioned that as members of the agricultural community, it was important to “keep track of current legislative issues”. Nate stated that one reason he attended conferences, such as YALC, was to “see what’s going on with politics because there is a lot of stuff that could make or break an operation.” Another common topic was estate planning and farm transition information. John described a workshop that he viewed as successful on farm transition and estate planning. “He had some pretty terrible stories of the way farm transitions had went wrong…kind of horror stories that really make you go wow maybe we should actually talk about this with mom or dad.”