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Archive for the ‘Strategic Planning for Business’ Category


Passing Down The Farm in 2010

“Passing Down the Farm, the OTHER Farm Crisis” was based on our experiences helping farm families plan for the future of their farm business during and beyond their lifetimes. In 2009,  using this interactive web site, we made some dramatic improvements to our farm succession system, one that puts farmers in charge of their own [...]

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Farmers Must Have Leadership Heroes

Who are yours? What make you want to follow their lead? Leaders, those worthy of being our leaders anyway, always take the responsibility and privilege of leading us seriously. They know that is we believe in them, based on their actions, we’ll follow them willingly. As followers we trust them implicitly to consider our best [...]

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Farms Planning For Succession Require Change Management Leadership Skills

Successful farms understand that their real success will be determined by their family. It will be measured by how successful they are at managing change, change in the farm’s leadership as it is transitioned from the current senior generation to the next. Unfortunately many of you will not make the grade. This article, written for [...]

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Farm Strategic Planning – A Few Suggestions

Strategic planning for farm business growth is an absolute necessity if you want to succeed. You may not realize it but not planning is planning by default. The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the planning, or not, that you are doing right now. This article was chosen because we found that [...]

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An Introduction to Farm Strategic Planning

Farm strategic planning is easier today than ever before, which is a good thing because strategic planning is an important part of planning for succession. Software tools and easy to use templates, containing detailed framework and sample texts, will help even the novice farmer along with their advisors create professional looking plans with tables and [...]

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