The new year has begun, and as you contemplate the coming months, here are eight ideas to bolster your management-succession and estate-planning efforts.

Easy-to-build ideas make your work easier. Readers send in helpful solutions to farm and ranch problems.

Higher price tags make the decision about how to finance equipment purchases more critical to any farm business's success.

Minnesota farmhand turns a woodworking hobby into a career.

Costs tied to cover crop production may be offset by adding livestock to the mix.

These savory muffins will delight even those who lean more toward a sweet tooth.

Steve Thompson answers readers' questions about all things mechanical.

Case IH and New Holland show off new technologies and equipment.

Financial ratios help measure the strength of your business.

Steve Thompson answers readers' questions about all things mechanical.

A pair of green combines drone on in the field in front of Shelly Kelly's ranch house, in Custer County, Nebraska, but the pickup truck kicking up dust as it heads up her driveway isn't coming to refill a water jug or report the yield.

The grass may look greener on the other side of the fence, but it's probably just the perspective of the view.