Succession Planning
Open communication and succession planning help farm families maintain profits and healthy personal relationships.
When Becky Berger reflects on her nearly four decades as a farmer, mother and businesswoman, one key move continues to pay huge dividends.
How can you get back on track with your succession plan? Focus on a contingency plan, a cash-flow plan and communication plan.
The Ducheneaux family reconnects consumers with their food source
Here’s how you can avoid committing these harmony-harming mistakes.
Congratulations to Todd, Louise and the Malecha family for being named the 2022 Top Producer of the Year. Pay a virtual visit to their dairy farm in Villard, Minn., to learn how they stay focused on goals and values.
To improve productivity in your operation and reduce stress in your family business, set these helpful ground rules.
If your summer farm help involves your child or grandchild, you can combine that hard work with a financial life lesson.
You’ve heard the horror stories. The ones about farm families who spend months in court fighting over assets. The result? A destroyed business and fractured family. Why does this situation play out over and over?
You wear many hats throughout the year. What happens if you or one of the key decision makers is away from the farm for a few weeks or months? Will everyone know exactly what to do when?