Because you’re here, I assume you are interested in your farm’s long term success. Click here to learn the most cost effective way to achieve it!. Successful farmers see their hard work pay off over the years, naturally making the farm their most important and valuable asset, as well as one that offers other [...]

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A business strategic development plan serves as a framework for decision-making or for securing support and approval from partners, employees or stockholders.

While this article is not specifically about farm succession planning, it is about succession strategies in a general sence. There are three reasons why I chose this story – click on the link above [...]

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It seems like we all learn better in groups. In school, from kindergarten to graduate school, you worked on projects in teams or groups. You always seemed to learn more from your peers than when you listened to an instructor droning on about a particular subject.
What we all learn talking with and listening to our [...]

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Succession planning is all about making managing people much more effective, creating spaces for whoever you are, with people management responsibilities, to focus on your job, not theirs. Through empowering them, you generate enthusiasm and engagement. Everyone thrives, especially your business or organization your business.

While this article is not about farm succession, it is about [...]

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We wrote “Passing Down the Farm, the OTHER Farm Crisis”, in 1986 – based on my experiences helping farm families plan for the future of their farm business during and beyond their lifetimes.
We added the word “OTHER” in the title because we were going through a farm crisis at the time, high farm land values [...]

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