This is especially true if you want to do anything unusual. Additionally, you need to work with your tax advisor. There was a day in the history of the Church when most tithing was received in-kind, usually in the form of commodities and goods. Today, the Church is a modern institution with highly sophisticated methods of receiving donations and transferring them to Church headquarters. Our missionaries leave for their fields of labor on airplanes not on horses.
Finances are equally modern.
The procedures are consistent with the current technology of the world. Unfortunately, live chickens and pails of milk do not move through bank wire transfers very well. So, even though tithing in-kind was once the standard in the Church it is not today. There are some assets the Church will not accept because they simply are in no position to deal with them. With such assets the best thing to do is sell them and contribute the cash.