Robert Branan

Bio

Robert Andrew Branan, JD is an Associate Extension Professor with the Agriculture and Natural Resources (ARE) Department of the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, North Carolina State University. Andrew is a legal educator/researcher in agriculture with 20+ years experience working across North Carolina and the Southeast, including private and non-profit law practice in agricultural land use, environmental and natural resource law. His Extension work concentrates on farm succession, agribusiness and taxation, land use regulation, water and natural resource protection, and heirs property issues has placed him in speaking and community resource roles across North Carolina and Virginia. His campus courses include Environmental Law and Economic Policy and Agriculture Law. Prior to joining ARE, Andrew’s law practice served farmers, landowners and food entrepreneurs across North Carolina and Virginia on matters of business planning and management and asset transfer. He has authored the workbooks Planning the Future of Your Farm and So You Have Inherited a Farm, the latter focusing on co-tenancy resolution. Andrew graduated from Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia with degrees in Economics and History and earned his juris doctorate from Wake Forest University Law School. He lives with his family in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.