It’s Not How Many Times You Get …….
Being in the middle of the busiest tax season that I can ever remember, we took some time out last week to attend a luncheon for the local economic development group. The keynote speaker was one of the co-founders of the game Cranium. His first story was about being in a taxi ride in Dallas a couple of years ago and how he got into a conversation with the cab driver. They exchanged stories about their lives and the cab driver’s last works were “It is not how many times you get knocked down, it is how many times you get up.”
I think this saying applies to farming and life in general. As we go along right now, most farmers are enjoying some of the best prices they have ever had, however, we must remember that sometime in the future, the farmer will get knocked down. The important thing is to remember to get up and get up fast.
On a personal note, this last two weeks and probably the next week or so has been the busiest tax season I have ever had and it has reduced the amount of posts that I normally make. Just want to let our readers know that once it dies down a little bit, I will get back to a more normal posting pattern.
Paul Neiffer is a certified public accountant and business advisor specializing in income taxation, accounting services, and succession planning for farmers and agribusiness processors. Paul is a principal with CliftonLarsonAllen in Walla Walla, Washington, as well as a regular speaker at national conferences and contributor at agweb.com. Raised on a farm in central Washington, he has been immersed in the ag industry his entire life, including the last 30 years professionally. Paul and his wife purchase an 180 acre ranch in 2016 and enjoy keeping it full of animals.
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