The impact of the estate tax on small farms and ranches is examined in a piece written for the Farm and Ranch Guide Web site by John Hart, director of news services for the American Farm Bureau Federation. "Estate taxes are especially harmful to farmers and ranchers because their businesses are capital-intensive with a high concentration of assets tied up in land, buildings and equipment," he said.

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One of the American Paint Horse Association’s most highly decorated show horses, Fleetstreet Max, has been immortalized as Breyer horse model No. 1135 as part of the company’s 2010 Spring Collection. The overo gelding, known as “Max” is owned, trained and shown by Alisa Bernhard and was bred by her mother Sue Bernhard, both of Fieldstone Farms in Germantown, Wis. The first official model recently arrived at the farm.