Finances

Manage farm family finances with these financial strategies. In this section, you’ll also find tips for audits, tax preparation, budgeting, and managing living expenses.

Six Tax Mistakes for Farmers to Avoid

After the year is over, it’s pretty much too late to do any significant tax planning, like purchase equipment or defer revenue.

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Median Income Doesn’t Reflect Farm Economy, Economist Says

Median farm income is perhaps a measure that best describes the structure and demographics of U.S. farms, rather than the health of the U.S. farm economy.

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Weathering a Financial Storm

Understand the conditions bringing the proverbial rainy day – or a not-so-natural disaster – and hang on.

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Repair and Maintenance

Controlling Blowby in Diesel Engines

By Repair and Maintenance

Every engine has some level of blowby, but when it comes to large diesels, the concern is amplified.

A New Holland combine unloads into a Kinze grain cart.

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Top Shops

Huge Jump Start Comes in a Small Package

By Top Shops

The use of lithium-ion phosphate batteries cut the weight of the Crankenstein jump starter by 80%.

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Agronomy Insider

Hefty Brothers Urge Multiple Modes of Attacking Resistant Weeds

By Agronomy Insider

You can get 100% control of resistant weeds but you must use pre-, early-post-, and late-postemerge applications to do so.

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Gray Skies Over Farm Country

Lenders, economists, and the government are equally dour about the economic outlook for agriculture.

A farmer looking at paperwork in a field.

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The Major Players in Agri-Finance

Here are some of the big players in the agri-finance universe, including banks, nonbank finance companies, farmer-owned lending co-ops, REITs, private equity funds, and pension funds.