Editorials
For farmers, ranchers, and rural landowners, these three recent Supreme Court rulings serve as a critical reminder of the need to aggressively ground legal authority strictly in written statutory text to keep government power in check.
By coupling operational agility with proactive tax planning under the One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBBA), family-owned operations can fully leverage expanded safety nets and emergency deductions to insulate themselves from market volatility and preserve operational equity for the next generation.
A Kansas Court of Appeals ruling confirms that premarital agreements can waive future homestead rights, impacting farm succession planning, blended-family estates, property rights, fiduciaries, and agricultural attorneys statewide.
Protecting your water is no longer just about ensuring next year’s crop; it is about defending the fundamental constitutional rights that secure the future of American agriculture.
The Agri Stats settlement may prove to be one of the most consequential agricultural antitrust cases in decades.
Producers should coordinate immediately with their CPA and legal counsel to ensure their corporate structures and operational realities are perfectly aligned before the September deadline.
To preserve their property rights, farmers and ranchers must understand the procedural tactics of federal enforcement and take proactive steps to document the visual realities of their land.
Agricultural property presents unique opportunities for scammers to impersonate landowners and attempt to sell rural property they do not own. And in many cases, they are getting dangerously close to succeeding.
Passing a farming operation to the next generation causes incredibly complex challenges, so estate planners often use the QTIP Trust, a powerful estate-planning tool, to bridge the gap.