Agriculture
Rice Harvest in the Sacramento Valley
Rice harvest is underway! As usual, there’s concern about the weather, but harvest started last month with the early maturing varieties and will continue right into November. It’s fun to see all the videos of rice harvesting rolling onto the internet. Most of those videos are from the Sacramento Valley, where most of the rice in the U.S. is grown. All I have to do is take a little drive to see some live action harvesting, practically in my own backyard.
Ag Equipment Appraiser at Colusa Farm Show
February 1 dawned clear and windy, a perfect day for the Colusa Farm Show, just a few miles down the road from our Northern California Equipment Appraisal Office here in Yolo Co. So we set up call forwarding from the office phone and spent the day at “the Granddaddy of Farm Shows,” admiring farm equipment and chatting with dealers, manufacturers, farmers, dairymen, ranchers and other fans of agricultural equipment.
Agricultural Cost Segregation Studies: What’s Available for Depreciation?
Agricultural Cost Segregation Studies are the up & coming smart tax move here in the Sacramento Valley, agricultural center of California. And it’s about time: Although cost segregation studies have been available for decades, they’ve only recently hit the mainstream. Agriculture business folks in Northern California are realizing what a great benefit these studies can be to their bottom line.
The general concept of Cost Segregation Studies, in which personal property—such as removable flooring, plumbing and electrical components connected to personal property—are segregated from the real property of foundations, walls and other structural components, works well for properties such as office complexes, apartment buildings, single-family rental units, manufacturing plants or shopping malls.
