Demographics
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TEPAP – Day 5 Morning Session
The morning session of day 5 of the TEPAP conference was performed by Bernie Erven, professor emeritus of agricultural economics at Ohio State University (of THE Ohio State University as one farmer told me this week). His discussion was on Human Resources Management dealing with: Be a Better Boss Organizational Structure Dealing with Problem Employees […]
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TEPAP – Day 4 Afternoon Session
The afternoon session of day 4 of the TEPAP convention was presented by Gary Maas on dealing with all of the different personality types associated with a farm operation (or in life). The interesting part of the presentation is how your personality based upon your natural style may be completely different from the style you […]
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TEPAP – Day 4 Morning Session
David Kohl, noted speaker and professor from Virginia Tech University provided a morning session on Mega Trends for agriculture. Highlights are as follows: 70% of North American farms will change hands by 2025. This is not just ownership, but who farms the land. This provides plenty of opportunities for American farmers. Volatility will require an […]
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TEPAP – Day 3 morning session
For the Tuesday morning session of the TEPAP conference, we had Dr. Ed Siefried, a noted economist to explain how the macro economic trends will affect farming in 2011. Highlights are as follows: 1. The economy in 2011 is expected to be recovering with growth possibly around 4% with low inflation. However, in all previous […]
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Top 5 Trend of 2010 – High Commodity Prices
I think one of the major trends for 2010 and going into 2011 is the continuing high level of commodity prices for most grains, livestock, sugar, cotton, etc. In 2008, we had high level of prices in the grains, however, the pricing for livestock was much lower and cotton was close to a $1 cheaper […]
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Top 5 Trend – Obama Care
We will be posting each day this week a top 5 trend or item for 2010. It may be related to taxes or other items that have affected farmers either in 2010 or looking forward to 2011. Our first top 5 item is Obama Care. This is actually the result of two bills that were […]
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Merry Christmas!
Just wanted to wish all of our readers a Merry Christmas and we at Farm CPA Today.com appreciate your readership throughout 2010. Just last week, we had our largest number of unique visitors for one day and we just want to thank you for your support. Again, Merry Christmas and have a very good 2011.
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World Corn Production Could Double Using US Methods!
The Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City publishes several good Ag related articles each year. They recently did a quick snapshot of the US Ag Economy and one of the slides represented the current corn production for the world. The graph showed the actual production for 2009 and the anticipated production assuming each country would […]
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December 31, 2010 – Date to Make Taxable Gifts
With the expected large increase in gift and estate tax rates for 2011, December 31, 2010 is the key date to make any large taxable gifts. Currently, the maximum gift tax rate is 35% and it will rise on January 1, 2011 to 55%. There is no estate tax for 2010, but in 2011, the […]
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Cane, Beet, Corn – What is Sugar?
I have seen several articles lately on the battle between high fructose corn syrup and regular sugar from sugar cane or sugar beets. There is a perception by the public that cane and beet sugar is better for you than sugar from corn. Most nutritionists believe that the all of these sugars are equal from […]