In brief, taxes are a constant, like death. Failure to plan for either gives a headache to who discovers your lack of planning. In the past, some farm operators accepted losses and gleefully avoided paying tax and opting instead to ...

Barb Wire was said to tame the wild west and end the free range. It was a technological break through that rearranged the way ag was conducted in large stretches of the United States. Barb wire is not alone in ...

Skull Sweat I recently read about a person's estate plan with the following elements.  Remove my head from my body. Have it dipped in a substance to preserve the skull Take the remains of my body and have them carbon ...

Ag Law Issues of the Year Outside of the less than ideal crop season, ag issues in the law continue to have an impact on production ag, whether or not we see them immediately as muddy fields, rain-soaked crops, and ...

As a farm operation, this question is a central driving factor to profitability and sustainability. It ties up capital, is hard to acquire, and often comes with factors that are hard to mitigate, like poor neighbors, bad drainage, irregular shaped ...

When it’s time to get out of farming, problems abound. Often times, the farm operator has equipment that has no tax basis left and high resale value. That triggers tax. Further, the operation is often left with the proceeds of ...