Business
Matt and Janna Splitter grew their farm by investing in people. Now the test is whether the farm can run without them — and which acres are worth keeping.
New tax rules could let farmers who sell land defer, reduce and even wipe out capital gains tax starting Jan. 1, 2027.
Two Midwest farmers share how ongoing cost pressures are reshaping their approach to harvest and planning for 2027.
Vision without a written plan is just a daydream. Here’s why putting your goals on paper, and doing the math, changes everything.
Tyler and Wendy Chambers have spent almost $300,000 in regulatory tape, yet the state has added a remarkable demand: Relinquish 44 acres or never build.
The Evansville facility will be Wisconsin’s first large-scale soybean crush plant — processing 80 million bushels annually and lifting CHS’s total crush capacity by more than two-thirds when it opens in 2028.
People, insurance and having a plan in place are easy to overlook, but they can have a big impact when the unexpected happens.
New rule could allow qualifying LLCs and S corporations to stack payment limits by actively engaged owner. Here’s what farmers need to know — and what to do before the deadline.
USDA certification clears Farm Credit institutions to invest in the Farmers Innovation Fund — the financing arm of a network where farmers pick the startups, run the trials and hold the equity.
Government payments, insurance and regenerative incentives are worth about $0.52 per bushel on a 220-bu farm. Add them to a $5.49 December board and the marketing math changes — if you know your numbers line by line.
The monitor overseeing the court-supervised sale of 274,000 acres can begin designating winning bids as of Sept. 1.
Enemy of the state? What is Julie Burgod’s alleged crime?
The joint venture could “cut roughly in half” finished imports of phosphate fertilizers.
Led by Blue River Technology co-founder Jorge Heraud, the startup says it can improve fertilizer placement.
NASDA and the National Agricultural Law Center say a new project tracking both Chapter 11 and Chapter 12 filings offers a more complete view of agricultural bankruptcies — with California, Arkansas, Georgia and Iowa leading the initial dataset.
New research builds on growing state and federal scrutiny by asking what these laws could mean for land prices and productivity.
When siblings build a farm together, the hardest decisions can come when their children, spouses and different visions for the future enter the picture.
Retired and disabled, Ron Hines was hounded for giving online animal health advice. No one ever complained. Except the state.
Bushel targets the lien-driven failure point that forces grain settlement back onto paper.
Each agriculture revolution arrived faster than the last one; now here comes AI, and no technology in ag’s history has promised to rewire the economics of farming this fast.
Passing the farm to the next generation takes more than deciding who gets what. The right estate plan can help avoid family conflict, unexpected costs and headaches down the road.
“COVID slowed down the progression of these decisions,” Brad Oelmann says. “If not for those issues, this would’ve happened already.”
Farmers hoping for rent relief in 2027 may face a tough reality: land values are holding firm, and cash rents are slow to follow margins lower.
Hiring help is never easy, but waiting too long can cost more than the paycheck.
Joel Gross contends a retaliatory hammer dropped on his operation, costing him hundreds of thousands of dollars.
As input costs remain elevated, fall lease deadlines are putting renewed focus on cash rents and farmland values.