In 2005, Kevin Spafford founded Legacy by Design, a succession planning firm dedicated to serving the succession planning needs of farmers, ranchers and agribusiness owners. You may recognize Kevin as the architect of the Farm Journal Legacy Project.

As ag commodity prices fall, yet seed, chemical and equipment prices remain high and high land prices persist, agribusinesses continue to look at ways to consolidate. The Des Moines Register reports that the DuPont interim CEO, Ed Breen, confirmed that DuPont Pioneer is exploring the possibility of a merger.

Reuters reports DuPont is talking about its agriculture business with rival Dow Chemical Co., according to DuPont’s interim chief executive, Edward Breen.

The horse race-betting public didn’t make much money on Secretariat. Two months after winning the Triple Crown, Secretariat lost what seemed like a sure bet to a relatively unknown horse named Onion at the Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga Springs, New York.

And so it begins. On Monday, the U.S. Transportation Department announced the creation of a task force to develop recommendations for a registration process for unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), commonly referred to as drones.

John Szczepanski, director of the U.S. Forage Export Council, told the National Hay Association members at their annual convention, “The new normal is bad. I wish I could paint a rosier picture.”