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All wet.

What’s old is new again. In January, the Supreme Court is once again hearing Sackett v. EPA. This gun battle is about a wetland with a proposed house development on it in Idaho near a body of water that the ...
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Crop Insurance.

Risk management for crop production is a critical component of a modern ag operation. While many operators use crop insurance, few understand even the basics of how it functions when things go sideways. Understanding this federally regulated program is important ...
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Beware the West.

Iowan’s have little direct contact with federal land regulators. Afterall, Iowa only has .3% that’s right three tenths of one percent of its land mass owned by the federal government. We have essentially no large active-duty military bases, forest reserves, ...
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Solar Leases

First it was wind and now solar is all the rage. Much like wind easements, solar farm easements are not to be taken lightly nor signed up for without due consideration. Most of the of the time, the solar farm ...
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What are your Shear Bolt moments?

Every ag equipment operator has had it happen, a high dollar piece of equipment, with weather threatening on a weekend, is ground to a halt for a simple mechanical failure, like a shear bolt doing its job and well, shearing. ...
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Shamrock Shakes Shape Ag Policy

To the delight of comedians everywhere the FTC is reportedly looking into why McDonald's ice cream machines often seem to be out of order. At first this seems pretty much like a waste of time, and nothing do with ag ...
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