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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...
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...
ABCs of corporations
The type of agricultural business structure chosen will have many implications on the future of a farm/ranch business and on future generations...
Limited liability options
If your goal is to pass the ranch to subsequent generations, you might consider forming a limited liability structure. Emphasis on the That's because...
Time to talk
If your idea of communication is shouting at your wife (or kids) to close the gate, or when a son or daughter approaches you with We've got to talk, you...
Communication is key
While many family-owned businesses have a long-term objective of passing the business on to the next generation, in reality only about 30% of all family-owned...
Trusts for transfer
Can you trust a trust to accomplish your estate-planning goals? Probably, says Roger McEowen, Iowa State University (ISU) Leonard Dolezal professor of...
Are you willing?
Death. No one wants to talk about it, other than maybe joking around. Most of us especially hate talking about it with the folks we'll likely be inheriting...
From Our Columnists
Tracking failure
"Hard to believe six years have passed since the cow bearing BSE stole Christmas in the U.S. Harder to believe there's still no cattle and beef industry...
The next decade: Part I
I truly believe ranching in the next decade will not be "business as usual." Thus, my next few columns will look to stimulate ranchers'...
No Silver Bullet
I think I can speak for all the “Vet's Opinion” authors in saying that we enjoy feedback on our columns, particularly when a correspondent gives...
