Farmers Grain & Supply Co. v. Skinner

Faced with a conflict between a landlord’s statutory crop lien for rent and an agricultural supplier’s perfected security interest in proceeds from the sale of crops grown on the rented land, the trial court determined that the landlord’s lien has priority. The supplier of the agricultural products appeals. We affirm.

In January of 1985, John Welch verbally agreed to lease approximately 200 acres of his farmland to Robert Skinner. The terms of the lease provided that Skinner would pay Welch $5,500 on June 1, 1985, and $10,500 on January 1, 1986, for a total of $16,000 cash rent for the 1985…