Under the new 199A deduction, farmers can sell their production to a coop and take a tax deduction for net earnings at up to 20 percent of the gross value of their sales. By contrast, if they sell to a non-coop business, their maximum deduction is 20 percent of earnings. The profit implications are huge, and this will strongly encourage farmers to sell to coops rather than to other private or publicly traded agribusinesses. In fact, some of the manipulations being considered to exploit or maneuver around the new law include:
Accountants are advising family farmers to convert their farm structure into small coops. Since coops (especially in the South) cannot handle the volume of trade soon to be diverted their way, they are considering h...
What You Need to Know Today: A third U.S. border crossing (Columbus, New Mexico) has reopened to Mexican cattle imports following nearly two years of restrictions related to New World screwworm. The reopening could gradually improve feeder cattle availability, although more than 60 confi...
Yesterday, the USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) released a new report of negotiated cash purchases of cattle under the mandatory price report. The report included Colorado, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, and Kansas. The goal of the report was to solve the confidentiality issues e...
Key Takeaways: U.S. soybean crushing began in 1911 and saw its most rapid expansion during the 1930s amid the broader agricultural and technology revolutions of the time. After peaking in the early 2000s, the soybean crushing industry went through a downturn as poor crush margins forced...
