Ag Tax University Is Live

Ag Tax University goes live today, July 1, 2026

Today is the day. After more than a year of building, testing, and waiting, Ag Tax University officially goes live on July 1, 2026 — and I could not be more pleased to finally say it out loud.

A little background. Ag Tax University is a venture I own together with Penny Wade Smith, and it grew out of a problem the two of us kept running into. If you are a tax professional who serves farmers and ranchers, quality continuing education on agricultural taxation is genuinely hard to find. Mainstream CPE tends to skim the surface — a slide or two on Schedule F, a passing mention of deferred grain — and then move on. Ag tax is its own world, and we thought it deserved its own school.

So, we built one. The idea is simple: focused, practical, ag-specific CPE delivered in sessions you can actually fit into a working week. Each session runs one to three hours, so you can pick up exactly the topic you need — farm income tax, depreciation and cost recovery, entity structuring, estate and succession planning, current developments — without blocking out an entire day.

Getting here took longer than we planned. The content was the fun part. Getting registered with NASBA so that our sessions count for CPE credit was, let us say, a test of patience. There were delays, and then a few more delays. But that work is finished, the approvals are in hand, and we are live.

Right now, there are about 16-17 sessions on the site, and we are adding more all the time. This is not a fixed library that sits still — we intend to keep building it out as the law changes and as we hear what you want covered. And ag tax law has been changing plenty lately.

You can see all of it at agtaxu.com. Go take a look, browse the sessions, and sign up. Penny and I have put a great deal into this one, and we believe it fills a real gap for everyone doing ag tax work.

Welcome to Ag Tax University.