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Estate Planning
Does The Death Tax Need A Repeal Or An Overhaul?
Repeal of the estate tax, or death tax, as it's often termed by its detractors, has long been championed by ag commodity and small-business groups...
Passing it on
Most folks dream of being successful in life, and over the course of a lifetime such drive builds assets. For some, these assets are modest...
A family's battle
Ralph and Maxine Jones are evangelists for repeal of the federal estate tax, for good reason. Their family operation in Midland, SD, has been impacted...
Charitable arrangements
Every minute of every day, we lose two acres of agricultural land to development. That's one reason groups ranging from the American Farmland Trust...
Estate-planning resources
Books: "Passing It On: An Estate Planning Resource Guide for Wyoming's Farmers and Ranchers"...
Estate tax repeal
Repeal of the estate tax, or death tax, as it's often termed by its detractors, has been long-championed by agricultural commodity and small-business...
A working LLC
Thirty years ago, Gary Sonstegard and his family began raising cattle near Montevideo, MN. In that time, they went from raising a few...
Is life insurance really necessary?
You can look at life insurance as an estate management tool, or as a take-it-or-leave-it kind of proposition. And most estate-planning experts would just...
From Our Columnists
Top 5 moves for getting out of the hay-feeding rut
Whether you're out feeding in the cold or just looking out your window at cows eating hay at a cost of $2/cow/day, it should be a wake-up call for all of us...
Buy/sell margins - part III
The feeder-cattle futures market is being whipsawed by corn futures prices. Corn futures prices were in the mid-to-high $3 range early in 2007...
Planning for successful breeding
What tasks need to be done to help assure a successful breeding season this year? Let’s start with the bulls. Nationally, about 10% of all bulls fail...
