Tex. Codes » Agriculture Code · TITLE 8. PROTECTION AND PRESERVATION OF AGRICULTURAL OPERATIONS · CHAPTER 251. EFFECT OF NUISANCE ACTIONS AND GOVERNMENTAL REQUIREMENTS ON CERTAIN AGRICULTURAL OPERATIONS
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Tex. Agric. Code § 251.001 (2026)

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Sec. 251.001. POLICY. Food security being essential, it is the policy of this state to conserve, protect, and encourage the development and improvement of its agricultural land for the production of food and other agricultural products. It is the purpose of this chapter to reduce the loss to the state of its agricultural resources by limiting the circumstances under which agricultural operations may be legally threatened, subject to suit, regulated, or otherwise declared to be a nuisance.

Added by Acts 1981, 67th Leg., p. 2595, ch. 693, Sec. 21, eff. Aug. 31, 1981.

Amended by:

Acts 2023, 88th Leg., R.S., Ch. 135 (H.B. 2308), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2023.

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 9 cases, 1999–2012 · leading case: Holubec v. Brandenberger, 111 S.W.3d 32 (Tex. 2003).
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Holubec v. Brandenberger, 111 S.W.3d 32 (Tex. 2003). “” Tex. AgRic. Code § 251.001. To further this policy, the Legislature in section 251.”
Aguilar v. Trujillo, 162 S.W.3d 839 (Tex. App. 2005). “The Legislature passed this Act in 1981 in order “to conserve, protect, and encourage the development and improvement of [Texas] agricultural land for the production of food and other agricultural products” by “limiting the circumstances under which agricultural operations may…”
Ehler v. Lvdvd, L.C., 319 S.W.3d 817 (Tex. App. 2010). “” Tex. Agric.Code ANN. § 251.001; Aguilar, 162 S.”
Hendrickson v. Swyers, 9 S.W.3d 298 (Tex. App. 1999). “Tex. AgRic. Code Ann. § 251.001 (Vernon 1982) (emphasis added).”
Cal-Co Grain Co., Inc., Warren Whatley, Harold L. Evans, & Lester Frazier v. Richard Whatley & Wife, Glenda Whatley (Tex. App. 2006). · cites it 3× “Implicitly, the majority concludes that testimony that Cal-Co is "a part of the process of producing livestock feed" and "a part of that process of producing crops for animals-for animal food" suffices to prove Cal-Co "constitutes an agricultural operation" as that term is…”
Cal-Co Grain Co., Inc., Warren Whatley, Harold L. Evans, & Lester Frazier v. Richard Whatley & Wife, Glenda Whatley (Tex. App. 2006). · cites it 2× “The Texas Legislature passed the Right to Farm Act in 1981 in order "to conserve, protect, and encourage the development and improvement of its agricultural land for the production of food and other agricultural products," and "limiting the circumstances under which agricultural…”
Velda J. Shore v. Maple Lane Farms, LLC (Tenn. Ct. App. 2012). “§ 21-10-25; Texas, Tex. Agric. Code Ann. §§ 251.001 , et seq.”
Texas Nat. Resource Conservation Comm'n Texas Farm, Inc. & Dean Paul D/B/A Paul Farms/Accord Agric., Inc. v. Accord Agric., Inc./Texas Nat. Resource Conservation Comm'n Texas Farm, Inc. & Dean Paul D/B/A Paul Farms (Tex. App. 1999). “See Tex. Agric. Code Ann. §§ 251.001 -.006 (West 1982 & Supp.”
Texas Nat. Resource Conservation Comm'n Texas Farm, Inc. & Dean Paul D/B/A Paul Farms/Accord Agric., Inc. v. Accord Agric., Inc./Texas Nat. Resource Conservation Comm'n Texas Farm, Inc. & Dean Paul D/B/A Paul Farms (Tex. App. 1999). “See Tex. Agric. Code Ann. §§ 251.001 -.006 (West 1982 & Supp.”
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