Ron Haugen, NDSU Extension Service farm economist, has some items to note for your 2013 income tax preparation.

This is the perfect time to set your savings goals and create a plan.

Approximately 10,000 acres of additional cropland is estimated to be lost for every 1 foot rise in the level of Devils Lake.

Red River Valley farms saw a record high net farm income in 2012 plummet by 88 percent in 2013 and then by 79 percent in 2014.

Household expenditures on North Dakota farms were about the same in 2013 and 2014.