When we inherited this farm we also inherited a stack of questions nobody hands you answers to — leases, exemptions, programs, paperwork. These guides are our homework, written down as we do it for our own place. Plain English, real sources, and an honest note wherever we haven’t finished finding out.
The most common first dollar a piece of Mississippi land ever earns. What leases pay around here, why the liability protection you think you have disappears the moment money changes hands, and what has to be in writing.
Read the guide →Mississippi taxes farmland on what it produces, not what it would sell for — if you ask. How use-value assessment works, the one-page affidavit that cuts equipment sales tax to 1.5%, and the bill that may cut it to zero.
Read the guide →The federal government will help you fix fences, build ponds, plant trees, and rest worn-out fields — but only if you're registered, and only if you ask during the right window. A map of FSA, NRCS, and the first phone call to make.
Read the guide →We are not writing this one from research. Four siblings, one farm, one unexpected loss. The first-year checklist we wish someone had handed us: title, insurance, taxes, and the case for moving slower than you think.
Read the guide →Somebody nearby needs your grass more than you do. Field leases pay less than hunting leases but ask nothing, keep the land open and classified as agricultural, and are usually one page long. Here's the whole play.
Read the guide →New guides get added as we work through the next question ourselves. When a guide’s advice gets tested on this actual farm, the results — good and bad — go in the Journal.