Delta Land and Farms

Delta Land and Farms Real estate professional, Land management and development, Land acquisition, Investment Consulting.

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08/16/2026

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The Department of the Interior this week announced the largest expansion of hunting and sport fishing opportunities in the history of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

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08/15/2026

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Which lands badly in most families, and it is not hard to understand why.

Picture the actual situation. Four kids. One stayed. That one spent twenty years fixing whatever broke at two in the morning, took the lean years at a wage nobody would accept elsewhere, carried the operating note and knows every gate on the place. The other three built lives somewhere else, which nobody holds against them.

Split it four ways and it looks fair on paper.

It also frequently ends the operation. A quarter share held by someone who wants cash means the one who stayed either buys the others out at market value or watches the ground go to whoever bids. Statistical work at Oklahoma State found the equal split, the single most common approach American farm families take, carries the lowest success rate of any strategy.

Research at Ohio State points the same direction.

Their findings indicate unequal distributions improve the odds of transferring the business successfully and reaching basic milestones over a twenty year window, according to published extension research. Tools exist for exactly this problem. Life insurance, non-farm assets and structured buyouts are all built to make off-farm heirs whole without cutting the operation into pieces.

So both positions are honest. One says the child who stayed earned more than a quarter, that sweat equity is real equity, and dividing by headcount punishes the only person who showed up. The other says all four are your children, no parent should rank them, and no operation is worth more than the relationship between the people left holding it.

Four kids, one stayed. What does that person actually get. Say it below.

Sources: Oklahoma State University, Ohio State University, University of Wisconsin Division of Extension, Farm Bureau Financial Services, AgWeb.

08/09/2026
08/09/2026

Since 1934, duck stamp dollars have paid for the protection of millions of acres of Prairie Pothole wetlands. Your grandad’s duck stamp paid for this protection. So have yours. And so should your kids. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is considering weakening drainage restrictions for these protected wetlands. We’re all working to prevent these restrictions from being altered, and every voice counts. North America’s most important waterfowl habitat needs your help. Sign the petition and submit your comment now:

https://www.ducks.org/save-the-duck-factory

To learn more about what’s going on, listen to our Mossy Oak GameKeepers’ Podcast Ep. 464 with experts Dr. Mike Brasher and Dr. Scott Stephens, Ducks Unlimited’s Senior Waterfowl Scientist and Senior Director of Conservation Strategy.

08/07/2026

Our research has shown that the two antler characteristics that are most heritable are forked tines and short or missing browtines.

08/05/2026

"Ask NDA" is a feature of our weekly newsletter where our readers can get the answers to their deer questions. Mark Anderson asked us, "When does the majority of a buck's antler growth end?"

Deer grow antlers slowly at first, then fast, then slow again near the end. Initial growth begins within days of the wound closing after an old antler is shed, but it is barely noticeable for weeks. The pace picks up in May and peaks around June at about an inch every four days in adult bucks, according to research by and others. Growth is at the tips, not the base.

The majority is usually done by late July to early August. After that, growth slows, bone hardens, and the velvet dries and peels, usually by early September. This photo of a Wisconsin buck, for example, was taken on September 4. Some regions and some individual bucks will see slight variations from this timeline.

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