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Rich and Famous or Poor and Notorious it matters not.

Prenups are not just for the rich and famous, nothing says I love you and not your money like a prenup.  They are a great tool for farm operations to address uncertainty, provided for orderly estate planning and growth, and ...
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Snake Oil and Deductions

With hard economic times comes schemes and plotting, especially when it comes to taxes. These folks often show up at farm shows and real estate events promising results and insider only information. Rarely does it stand up. Lets take a ...
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ICE

Many people have watched the ever-increasing implementation of raw government power against occupants of this country.  As a farm employer, you may want to consider, in advance of masked agents wearing mismatched camo clearance pieces from a sporting goods store ...
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AI

From a legal scholar friend of mine, out West, a few thoughts on Artificial intelligence. We must adopt the same careful, suspicious, exhaustively specific approach one would use when bargaining with the Fair Folk, Cursed Monkey Paws, or Djinn. Ask ...
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Empty Pockets are better than Empty Promises

Banks Sell money. They don’t operate movie theaters, shoe stores, or farms.  They sell money in the form mostly of promissory notes tied to collateral with mortgages or security agreements and revenue some fees for housing, moving, and reporting on ...
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What’s next?

This last year was a fun time to be in ag, clear steady markets, rationale, well-reasoned trade policy and commitments to long term markets that allow farm operators to make plans that invest in their own success and communities. Labor ...
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