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For Farmers, Fitness Programs Can Improve Mental Health, Too

Civil Eats

She directs the Total Farmer Health Program , launched in 2019 to provide wellness coaching on everything the agriculture business touches, from family to finances to personal fitness. Imagine muscle strains and sprains from lifting heavy grain bags or reacting swiftly to animals.

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Equipment Purchases, Interest and Taxes

Agribusiness Blog

To offset, Farmer Jones decides he wants to buy a new tractor (Note the use of the word “wants”) that costs $460,000. The existing tractor works but needs some repairs. Input pricing is less, but so is the price of grain and any excess working capital is often needed to pay those bills.

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Transforming the Delta

Food Environment and Reporting Network

Over the next two decades, tractors, mechanical harvesters, and chemical herbicides made sharecropping obsoleteyou no longer needed much labor to farm cotton or grains. When he was fifteen, a tractor flipped over on his father and killed him. The farms had to be large, though, to pay off the machines. All his siblings left, too.

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Opinion: European Farmers Are Standing Up to Free Trade—Will US Farmers?

Modern Farmer

When protests reached Brussels—where the European Parliament was in session—European Union policy makers announced plans to cushion the blow from Ukraine grain imports and address bureaucratic red tape. Protesting farmers with their tractors rally in front of the Greek parliament in Athens on Feb. Yes, they do.

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Why Farm Lending Needs to Change 

Trimble Agriculture

But, because financing hasn’t evolved with them, it’s challenging for farmers to secure the capital they require to purchase land and invest in their operations. Combined with a poor grain season overseas, farmers achieved an economic high they expected to last for years to come.

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Industry Ag News 8/2

Agwired

Thirdly, it reflects Hinton’s desire to leave a legacy for tomorrows successors (consistent with the framed print on his home office wall); through the sharing of memories and stories of tractors long ago manufactured and used to farm with during a given era.” In-person & virtual registration options are available.

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The Farm Tax Guide: Navigating Rising Property Taxes 

Trimble Agriculture

Farm Equipment Tax Exemption IRS Section 179 allows farmers to deduct the cost of agriculture-related assets like tractors and grain bins from their gross income, reducing federal tax payments. In 2023, farmers could deduct up to $1.16 million from their income. With complex agricultural tax laws, navigating them can be tough.

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