“Fifty-three percent of Iowa farmland is rented,” according to the Iowa State University Farmland Ownership Tenure Survey released in 2017. A high percentage of these agreements are for a simple…
The New Food Economy published an article in May 2018 written by Beth Hoffman who has reported on food and agriculture for more than 20 years. One of her conclusions…
Production agriculture will face multiple challenges in the decades to come as several reports suggest our world population will increase by over a third to a total of 9.8 billion…
Originally published November 17, 2012. Download a pdf of the original story here. My heart goes out to the people of the East Coast after Hurricane Sandy ripped through their…
Originally published July 21, 2012. Download a pdf of the original story here. The first official day in my farm estate-planning career was July 1, 1992. At 22 years of…
Originally published April 15, 2017. Download a pdf of the original story here As the grass starts to grow each spring, it makes me think of turning cows with baby calves…