Here's round two of old farming equipment Digital Editor Jen Bennett came across at her grandparents' farm recently. From another Allis tractor to an old Gleaner Six hopper to a McCormick grain drill, there's no shortage of vintage equipment at the Johnson farm in south-central Minnesota. Do you have some old equipment in the back 40? Email us your photos and we'll post them to our online photo gallery! Send them to csd@csdigest.com.
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Livestock producers across Ohio and the Midwest were unable to apply manure this fall and early winter due to saturated field conditions. Most livestock farmers are really pressed for manure storage room. Waiting for frozen ground to apply manure is likely to be their only available option.
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What is your goal in the tax planning process? Most responses are to pay as few taxes as possible, but the “reverse” may also be true, and that is to maximize your after-tax wealth. While those may not always be the perfect yin and yang of Schedule F preparation, effective tax planning should have the goal of maximizing your bank account when all taxes are paid.
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A judge in Federal District Court in Fresno, CA, has sided with America's ethanol industry in ruling that the State of California's Low-Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) is unconstitutional. Judge Lawrence J. O'Neill agreed with the arguments that the LCFS is in violation of the Commerce Clause in the U.S. Constitution.
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How close are you to the MF Global collapse and bankruptcy? Was your grain elevator one of hundreds that hedged through MF Global, and your elevator manager is now out of some of his or her margin money? Did you have an MF Global account and are you short hundreds, or thousands, or tens of thousands, or hundreds of thousands of dollars? Or were you totally insulated from the collapse until you read further?
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