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.
Machesney Park is a village located in Winnebago County, Illinois, United States. The population was 20,759 at the 2000 census. A special census conducted in 2006 showed the population had grown to 22,426. It is part of the Rockford, Illinois Metropolitan Statistical Area.