The Lunatic Farmer

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Amos Miler is a horse and buggy Amish farmer in Pennsylvania who has a Personal Membership Assocation (PMA) of a couple thousand people who voluntarily choose his pasture-based food. Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) has been tested in the courts and found to be “not in commerce” due to shared risk. A PMA is one step beyond a CSA and has yet to be tried in court to see if it merits the same “non commerce” designation as CSAs.

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Wisconsin Farmers Union

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

By Julian Emerson Wisconsin Farmers Union Communications Specialist BLANCHARDVILLE – Dairy breakfasts are a revered summertime tradition across Wisconsin, an annual celebration and affirmation of the rural way of life in a state known as “America’s Dairyland.” But this year the popular dairy breakfast in Lafayette County, in Wisconsin’s southwest corner, was canceled after organizers decided that a spate of road and bridge repairs would make it difficult for people to even get to the June 11 eve

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Agribusiness Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Many times I will get a farmer to ask me what their marginal tax bracket is. But they also want to know what the average rate they paid on their total income. These are two different numbers. The average tax rate is calculated by taking total taxes and dividing it into your total income reported on the return. Some use adjusted gross income and some use taxable income to arrive at this number.

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Sustainable Harvest International

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

August 30, 2022 — A new report by the Clean Cooking Alliance features the work of Sustainable Harvest International (SHI) and others in expanding access to clean cookstoves as a critical, yet under-valued, nature-based solution to climate change. SHI partnering farmer and small business entrepreneur Iris Meza Perez from Santa Cruz del Dulce, Honduras is featured on page 34 of the report.

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iFarm

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Talia has been raising and selling livestock for the last 5 years. She sells the chickens, pork and beef at farmers’ markets and direct to her customers who pick up their orders from her farm. Up until this point, she’s been managing and operating the farm by herself, but she hopes to build the business large enough, and profitable enough so that her husband can quit his off farm.

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Agribusiness Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

For most people Labor Day Weekend means time off. For the typical farm CPA like me, Labor Day Weekend means you can try to get most of those pesky September 15 business returns complete (and no I am not complete yet but getting close). This Labor Day Weekend was typical for me, however, I was able to get some combine time in on my spring and winter wheat fields that were being harvested.

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