One of my many weaknesses is maintaining focus. Often it seems squirrels are everywhere. And that’s frustrating because when I am focused, my head down, I move forward quickly and accomplish a lot. So it was that I got excited when I heard John Grant describe so-called Kanban Boards on a Legal Talk Network podcast. […]
The answer to the question, “what’s the value of water?” is it depends. No surprise there, but to be clear, I’m not talking about the value of the water that runs out of your tap. I speaking of the value of water that is appurtenant to your farm or ranch land. What’s it worth in […]
In an effort to keep abreast of water, water law, and water rights, I listen regularly to David T. McGimpsey, host of the Water Values Podcast. An attorney with Bigham Greenebaum Doll, David does water law, among other things. In his podcast, he interviews water experts and professionals from all walks of life–engineers, lawyers, hydrologists, water […]
I just read an interesting post over at The Startup Law Blog, a post written six years ago. The writer lists “12 Reasons For A Startup Not To Be An LLC.” The key word in that post is “startup,” and key thing to understand is the author’s audience, largely captured in the following paragraph from […]
As many will recall, then candidate Trump promised to eliminate the estate tax. That was then. This is now–he’s the President. What will he actually do? Will he also eliminate the estate tax’s two siblings: the gift tax and the generation skipping tax? No one knows, though many people care, especially those who preach tax […]
The Rural Law Center at the University of Wyoming College of Law is sponsoring the Farm and Ranch Transition Conference on March 3, 2017, a Friday, in Laramie. It’s free. The conference is open to the public. Those interested may attend either in person or via live streaming video. The program sounds interesting.
I just stumbled upon this list of 24 [supposedly] Must-Read Blogs for Entrepreneurs. I can’t vouch for them because I haven’t read them all, but many of the names behind the blogs are recognizable: Mark Cuban, Penelope Trunk, Scott Adams, Guy Kawasaki, and others, so go take a look. If you’re thinking of or are in the middle […]
Why doves cry. Half of Prince’s estate to go to government.
From Bloomberg: “For more than a half-century, Mr. Bartley’s Burger Cottage has been a Harvard Square institution. Six days a week, college students line up around the block for creations that include the People’s Republic of Cambridge, a hamburger topped with coleslaw and Russian dressing, and the Chris Christie, which is fortified with marinara sauce […]
“An often-neglected requirement of federal crop insurance is that the insured producer maintain complete records of crop production, harvesting, disposition, and inputs. Farm clients should be advised that they are to keep records of production and marketing for each crop by insurance unit. These records are an extremely valuable asset to the modern row crop operation, […]