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Farm Estate Planning Series: Are Your Heirs Ready for the Changes Your Death Will Cause?

August 21, 2026

Disclaimer - The following is meant only for educational purposes and not to be construed as legal or tax advice.Thinking about retiring from farming? Maybe you are brainstorming how the operation will transition when you are gone due to illness, injury, or death. Managing a farm in a fast...

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Farm Estate Planning Series: The First Place to Start

August 6, 2026

Farm Coach

Disclaimer - The following is meant only for educational purposes and not to be construed as legal or tax advice.This article will help you organize your farm into a document from which you will create an estate plan, so your advisors understand exactly what you own and how the operation...

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Farm Estate Planning Series: Quick Tips

July 10, 2025

Farm Coach

Quick Tips for Farm Estate PlanningStudies have shown that fewer than 20 percent of farm families have an effective estate plan to roadmap what happens to the family farm when dad and mom retire or pass away. Death is inevitable. What is very normal is that families avoid talking about what is...

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Farm Estate Planning Series: Choosing and managing a farm manager

June 7, 2023

Farm Coach

Disclaimer - The following is meant only for educational purposes and not to be construed as legal advice. The author of this article is a licensed Real Estate Managing Broker in the State of Illinois. Managing a farm is a big job. It requires oversight of the farmer(s) who...

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Farm Estate Planning Series: When generations disagree on the future of the farm

June 2, 2023

Farm Coach

Disclaimer - The following is meant only for educational purposes and not to be construed as legal advice. Farm owners work hard to build and maintain a farm. Often the farm has been in the family for generations. Years of sweat equity has been put into the land and farm operation. But...

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Farm Estate Planning Series: Family communications including the spouse of your child

May 26, 2023

Farm Coach

Disclaimer – The following is meant only for educational purposes and not to be construed as legal advice. Consult your legal advisor for actual legal advice. As we work our way through the Farm Estate Planning Series, we have established the importance of having an estate or...

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Farm Estate Planning Series: Choosing a trustee

April 12, 2023

Farm Coach

Choosing a Trustee/Executor for Your Farm Estate Plan Disclaimer – The following is meant only for educational purposes and not to be construed as legal advice. Consult your legal advisor for actual legal advice. As you work through the estate planning process,...

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Farm Estate Planning Series: Family conflict and the estate plan

March 3, 2023

Farm Coach

Disclaimer - The following is meant only for educational purposes and not to be construed as legal advice. People typically avoid talking about their death. The thought isn’t pleasant. Our natural human behavior is to avoid the subject as much as possible. Too often when forced to...

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