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8 MAKING SURE YOUR 18
TAX BREAKS MAY 31 BRYAN MEDER, HERO 36 A PROMISING PICTURE OF

HORSE GETS ALL HIS HELP YOU FUND Here is one story from attorney FLORIDA’S ECONOMIC

NUTRIENTS, PART I
FARMING UPGRADES
Michael Martin on how he AND AGRICULTURAL
ENVIRONMENT
When taking care of your horse, As we invest in chemical witnessed an ordinary person do
there are six factors of nutrition application, injection, equipment, something extraordinary.
According to a recent study

to remember, and this column and maintenance, we should conducted by UF’s Food and
34 TAX REMINDERS FOR
will address the protein and consider taking advantage of Resource Economics Department,
carbohydrate part of your horse’s generous federal income tax YOUR AG OPERATION, things are looking up for Florida

diet.
deductions to offset our costs.
PART I
agriculture.

Since the world of taxes classifies
14 BUYING PRE-OWNED TRANSFERRING YOUR an ag operation that is owned
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FARM EQUIPMENT TO FAMILY BUSINESS, PART I
by a sole proprietor as a “small 42 FALL BACK INTO GOOD
SAVE MONEY...
GARDENING HABITS
As a business owner, you’re going business,” here are some important
BE CAREFUL AND to have to decide when will be the considerations to remember.
FOR AUTUMN

CHOOSE WISELY
right time to step out of the family With all the rain we’ve gotten the

If you haven’t thought of it already, business and how you’ll do it.
past few months, the nutrients in
buying pre-owned farm equipment the soil needs to be restored, and

may be one way to help tighten the THE FLORIDA-GEORGIA now is the perfect time to do it.
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WATER FIGHT: HOW
reins on spending, but be careful.
WATER RIGHTS IMPACT

16 HOW DID WE GET HERE? FLORIDA’S OYSTER
INDUSTRY
This year marks the 500th
anniversary of Ponce de Leon's In the latest episode in a decades-

discovery of La Florida, and the long water fight, Florida filed a

impact of that landing is apparent lawsuit against Georgia in the U.S.
throughout Florida's Historic Supreme Court over use of water

Coast.
from a shared river basin.
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