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.
Sumerco is an unincorporated community in northeastern Lincoln County, West Virginia, United States. It lies along West Virginia Route 214 east of the town of Hamlin, the county seat of Lincoln County. Its elevation is 1,211 feet (369 m). Although it is unincorporated, it has a post office, with the ZIP code of 25567; the population of the ZCTA for ZIP code 25567 was 709 at the 2000 census.