Georgia Pellegrini has quickly become known as a contemporary Martha Stewart, working to help women tap into their modern day pioneer spirit by teaching them how to grow a small-space garden, assemble the makings of a self-sufficient pantry, learn to navigate a compass for their next camping trip, or even forage for plants that give […]
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Do I Need a Rural Property Appraiser?
Rural and agricultural real estate is a challenging and specialized market segment, so utilizing an experienced real estate broker is important.
What You Need to Know When Selling a Farm or Ranch
If you’re considering selling a farm or ranch, there are important tax and financial planning issues of which you need to be aware. We take a detailed look.
Is Professional Farmland Management Right For Me?
Written by Tim Cobb There comes a time in the life cycle of agriculture property when it has become fragmented or family asset management has become distant enough that thoughtful owners recognize something needs to change. All too often owners of “family ground” decide, in frustration, that it is easier to potentially split cash than […]
ASFMRA Member Spotlight—Justin P. Bierschwale
Written by Justin P. Bierschwale Challenges facing rural landowners today vary greatly throughout the U.S. depending upon a multitude of things including property types, state regulations and ownership goals. To look at the challenges present in the rural land market through a national lens is challenging in and of itself. On the broad spectrum, I […]
Section 1031 Is On The Tax Reform Table
There has been a lot of talk about the need to reform our huge and complicated tax code. Like most things in life, the tax code is neither all good nor all bad. As much as we hate taxes, we like many of the things they pay for, such as public schools, highways and national parks.
WOTUS (Waters of the US) and Land Ownership
WOTUS (Waters of the US) is the on-going challenge to regulate water pollution — the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) and Army Corp of Engineers have been tasked with this challenge. The original Rivers & Harbors Appropriation Act of 1899 protected navigation and protected some waters from discharge of pollution. In 1948, the Federal Water Pollution […]
ASFMRA Member Spotlight: Michael J. Krause
Written by Michael J. Krause Agriculture and the agricultural industry meet basic human needs: food, fiber and fuel. Contributions provided by the “rural landowner” shape agriculture and the quality of life to which we have all become accustomed. Big data, agricultural policy and farm income are some of the largest challenges affecting rural landowners and […]
Farmland Values and Regional Marketplace Trends
With farmland values rising consistently over the past 10 years, and exploding in some us regions such as the corn belt and northern plains over the past five, this investment class has generated considerable interest, to say the least. There is a lot of speculation about where land values go from here. Given the diverse […]
