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UW-Madison Division of Extension is offering two meetings for professionals working with farmers on succession...

Katie Wantoch is the state Extension farm management outreach specialist focusing on financial and risk management.

Participants must attend all three days to be eligible for certification.

The training will be provided in Bismarck.

Dividing your assets equally may kill your dairy Oklahoma State University created a model that compares business and estate transition strategies and the probability of success. The results of the study show that dividing the assets equally among all heirs has the lowest success rate, and farms using that method usually don’t continue on to the next generation. “If the goal is to keep the farm business in the family, then we know that an equal distribution of the farm assets is not feasibl...