Farm Business - General
Finalized on July 19, 2022, BigIron Auctions and Sullivan Auctioneers LLCs have reached an agreement for an acquisition, which will combine two of the biggest online auction companies.
The IRS finally updated their Farmer Tax Guide to indicate famers can defer the yield portion of revenue protection crop insurance policies. You cannot defer the price portion.
Warning signs about the health of the general economy are blaring, but Farmer Mac’s summer issue of “The Feed” shows why ag lenders are in a better financial position to help farmers weather the higher costs.
The Commerce Department put out its second quarter GDP data this week, showing the U.S. economy shrank from April through June.
One of the most overlooked and misunderstood tax laws — available to married farming couples — is an opportunity called portability.
How are small independent businesses like grain elevators, welding shops, independent seed dealers and other local businesses going to find labor at wages they can pay? John Phipps answers the looming labor question.
Farmers looking forward to retirement may want to consider a cash balance plan. We go over the details
Efficiency is everything in agriculture. And thanks to John Deere’s newly released See & Spray Ultimate, growers can spray less and gain cost efficiency—conquering the battle against herbicide resistance.
In a time when colleges are jettisoning history departments, Mike Duncan’s work reminds us the importance of knowing how we got here, and how little politicians and political strife have changed.
Lies, Loans, and the lifeless body of a father helped forge a remarkable turnaround for a pair of Illinois growers—brothers in farms.