Leadership
Little steps can ease frustration and improve communication on your farm.
To boost employee retention, farms need leaders who can effectively inspire and guide others. The job often requires its leaders to possess a handful of characteristics not necessarily used on other areas of the farm.
Jackie Applegate began her journey in 1992 as the only female chemist at a Bayer manufacturing facility in Kansas City, Mo. Since then, she’s held a variety of global roles.
National FFA Week is a celebration of the impact the organization has across the country. To help in the celebration, Andrew McCrea shares this bit of FFA history.
Can you smell that? It’s the aroma of fresh opportunities.
Marcia Ruff, the 2023 Executive Women in Agriculture Trailblazer Award winner, delights in her many roles on the farm and the opportunity to educate and advocate for agriculture and food production in the classroom.
When “agvocates” do their work, the truth prevails—and farmers benefit from new opportunities.
Mentoring doesn’t come natural to all of us. Here are a few tips for evaluating a mentoring request.
Farm Journal Foundation is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that recognizes today more than ever, the agricultural sector must stay on the cutting edge.
At our house, kindness is expected. It’s the floor, the standard, the basic cable package. The direction their life or careers go beyond that point is the pursuit of excellence.