Last week during my visit to Wisconsin, I had a conversation with two managers of manufacturing facilities. The conversation turned toward deer...
Owning Land
Do you own land? Learn the benefits and challenges of owning land including tax benefits, conservation, leasing, easements, income opportunities and maintenance. Get land smart!
Landowners, did you know that the rules for the Federal Estate Tax are scheduled to change?
Since I was a boy I have loved seeing different plots of rural land. One thing that has always fascinated me was how it seems everyone has a name for...
Considering conservation buffers on your land? The USDA has 250,000 or more buffer contracts with about 160,000 farms and ranches.
Timber that has commercial value as determined by local standards and local buyers is referred to as merchantable timber (“merch”).
One of the most discouraging events on a farm is the untimely death of an animal. Whether it’s a humble chicken or a favorite horse, the landowner...
We’ve been in the time of hay for more than a month. This is the hot center cut of summer, that slab of days when each breath breaks a sweat.
As I write this at the end of the first week in June, the cost estimates to clean up the BP oil-blowout and compensate for damage are over...
I have nothing but respect and affection for state crews who maintain public roads, summer and winter. I don’t feel the same toward certain road...
I am a nonpoint-source (NPS) polluter. Everyone I know -- and everyone I see around here, everyone -- is just like me.