Agriculture Law involves farmers, landowners, and others in regards to crop-growing, farming processes, dairy production, livestock, farmland use, government subsidization of farming, and seasonal and migrant farm workers. There are numerous federal statutes that subsidize, regulate or otherwise directly affect agricultural activity. Some focusing on protecting migrant and seasonal agricultural workers, some for financial assistance to farmers and others for the construction or improvement of farm housing and other agriculturally related purposes.
Lemont is a relatively affluent village in Cook, DuPage, and Will Counties in the U.S. state of Illinois, and is roughly 27 miles (43km) southwest of Chicago. The population was 13,098 at the 2000 census. A great percentage of the village's residents are predominately White, making it one of the least diverse suburbs of the Chicago metropolitan area.