Mahon: Is it time for farms to start tracking invisible assets?

For all the experience that we may have, maybe we don't even recognize the worth of things on our own farms.

All corporations in that ‘other world’ – the urban one – have to produce a balance sheet generally once a year, especially if they are publicly traded. When they do so, they will automatically list their assets and liabilities. And in the assets they may automatically break out ‘intangible assets’, a category of asset that is invisible. Read More