September, 2009
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Don’t Forget the State When it Comes to Estate Taxes
Currently, for people dying in 2009, you can have a taxable estate of up to $3.5 million and not pay any federal estate taxes. For 2010, this amount is unlimited, but goes back to $1,000,000 in 2011 and beyond. Congress is working on changing these amounts and my guess is that the current $3.5 million amount […]
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Federal Reserve Bank Says Land Values are Stabilizing
The Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City issued their second quarter report on thier survey of agricultural credit condtions. Some highlights of the report are: 1. Farmland values seem to be stabilizing. The value of farmland in the second quarter was basically unchanged from the second quarter of 2008. Irrigated acreage was slightly higher due […]
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Six Steps to Good Marketing
First off, an update on why there have not been any posts for a few days. I went on a four day backpacking trip into the North Cascade Mountains of Washington state. This is some of the best scenery in the whole United States. I went with a friend that was in my wedding many […]
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Say “Thank You” and “I’m Sorry”
I was reading a good book by Mark Reiter called “What Got You Here Won’t Get You There” . Mark is a consultant to many Fortune 500 companies on how to get their key employees to overcome thier worst personailty traits. In the book, Mark pinpoints 20 traits that almost all people in business and in life […]
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The Five Year Forecast – Is It Better or Worse?
As the global economy turned south a year ago, the Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute at the University of Missouri decided to revise their projections of food prices and production over the next five years. This was done early in the year and many commodity prices have changed direction in the last several months. FAPRI […]