Legacy Project

New Mexico State University is partnering with Texas A&M and other universities across the country on a $9.75 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture to research bovine respiratory disease and how to reduce its prevalence in beef and dairy cattle.

It’s time. You need to finally make your farm’s succession plan a priority. As you take a first or second or 20th step in the process, shoot to avoid some common landmines.

You’ve heard the horror stories. The ones about farm families who spend months in court fighting over assets. The result? A destroyed business and fractured family. Why does this situation play out over and over?

Lack of leadership may be the single biggest void in today’s agricultural operations.

Bill Donald loves having his sons and young grandson on the ranch with him.

As Greg Dell reviews the three years he and his family have spent developing a succession plan for their Westminster, Md., farm, he remembers how overwhelmed everyone was by the process in the beginning.