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.
Machias is a town in Cattaraugus County, New York, United States. The population was 2,482 at the 2000 census. The Town of Machias is an interior town in the northeast quadrant of the county. It is northeast of Salamanca.