Storm Clouds Brewing?
The Ag sector is looking at the lowest net farm income in 2016 since 2002, with a drop of 56% from 2013 prices. This is across the board, with decreases in dairy, meat, poultry, vegetable sand feed crops. Why does ...
Read More Yours, Mine and the Courts
If you inherit property with your brothers and sisters, you just got thrown in to business together with no business plan, no body in charge and perhaps, wildly different goals for the business. This form of ownership is called: Tenancy ...
Read More Written leases make and break you.
In a case out of Clayton County: The tenant had 85 acres of farmland owned Strawberry with a written lease that had automatically renewed each year . The tenant was terminated timely by the city. The tenant complained about how ...
Read More Coming to a field near you, Ag Drones.
By 2022 (which isn't really all that far away), drones or UAVs(unmanned aerial vehicles) sales could be up to $3.69 billion dollars. That is over a 700% increase from the current level of sales. It isn't just the farmers who ...
Read More Legislation impacting Iowa Farmers
Laws are designed to generate revenue of the crown, provide for the common good, and make us behave or not behave in certain matters. In the end, that is what government is supposed to do.Recently, the Iowa statehouse has been ...
Read More Big Data Is A Big Headache
Thanks to Todd Janzen, @janzenlaw, for pointing out these data related issues in ag:Feel Free to Hack your Tractor John Deere's claim to US Copyright Office cl: aiming that it licenses tractor software to farmers caused WIRED magazine claim that ...
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