Who gets the farm is only one piece of an estate plan. For farm families, the bigger questions can start much earlier. Who can make decisions if an owner becomes incapacitated? Can the operation keep ...

University of Delaware Cooperative Extension has recently taken an alternative approach to offering farm succession planning workshops. In cooperation with the University of Maryland Agriculture Law ...

Are you ready to design your small farm right from the beginning? Sure, you've been planning it in your head for years. Now you're ready - you have the time and energy, and you've possibly even bought ...

Farm operations encounter many more challenges than other businesses. Considerations like production risk, weather challenges and livestock demands can quickly become a detriment to an unplanned and ...

Farm succession planning can get complicated, but avoiding the subject is a surefire ticket to trouble. Here’s how to start the conversation.

Farm transition planning is often the elephant in the room during holidays and family gatherings. The conundrum of how to effectively pass a legacy on to the next generation is one that every ...

Mark McLaughlinis an associate with Farm Financial Strategies and a co-owner of Farm Estate GPS in Ankeny, Iowa. He grew up on a family farm near Defiance, Iowa, and shares in the fifth generation of ...

Environmental scientists and water resource managers need precise, high-resolution maps to reveal areas that farmers should avoid when planting crops, to limit polluting waters with phosphorus from ...

The struggling farm economy means that farm transfers from one generation to the next may be happening in a sped-up process, vs. over several years. The content on Agriculture.com is by created by ...

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2025 | Document prepared by: Kelly Nuckolls, Extension Legal Specialist, Agriculture Law Education Initiative, University of Delaware Cooperative Extension & Department of Agricultural & Resource ...