After a mostly sluggish April, market-ready fed cattle saw a solid rally in the North and steady money in the South. Futures markets began to look past the psychologically bearish H5N1 virus news.
Racehorse flats is what the locals call the area where I grew up in Illinois. There are a variety of reasons for that moniker, but I generally correlate it with the insanity that occurs when area farmers try to be first to the field come spring.
The reality of taxes is that they are a longterm strategy, and farmers can utilize them in their business to a competitive advantage, says Lance Fulton, tax consultant with Kennedy & Coe.
