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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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IP ya you know me.. buy my scanner.

Intellectual property rights continue to play a role in ag that is oftentimes forgotten about entirely. Intellectual property protection improves crop quality substantially and profitability. It helps create branding and provides new tech to the industry. Patents, Plant Variety Protetion ...
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Why life estates are tricky, yet again.

No secret here, I am not a fan of life estates. This is a division of real estate between a person who gets occupy use and collect rents (and pay property taxes and not destroy the property) called life estate ...
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