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Succession Planning: Mapping Out The Future of Your Farm

Do you have a succession plan in place for your farm? Most businesses have succession plans in place to help ease the transition when the current leadership steps down, but we don’t often hear about farmers making succession plans, and as we know, farms are businesses. A succession plan is a plan identifying internal talent to […]

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Multi-generational Farming: Balancing Tradition & Innovation For Growth

Family farming is one of the most challenging and rewarding professions there is. Farmers are more connected to nature than most people. Farmers understand the complexities of working with their land to produce food for our nation. Multi-generational farming passes on the knowledge, wisdom, and traditions to the next generation. But what can farmers learn from the next generation […]

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Benefits of a Family Farm

Family farms have been disappearing over the years, with the number of dairy farms dropping more than 90% since 1970. There are many benefits to having a family farm, which we will take a look at here. The Animals A love for animals is a key factor for many who become farmers. Having the patience to care […]

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Multigenerational Farming: Upholding Traditions

Multigenerational Farming offers the chance for a younger generation to reap what’s been sowed by their parents and grandparents. Although there are always new machines and techniques to make farming less labor intensive and more efficient, these new-fangled methods could also have unforeseen consequences. This article touches on two examples where the new generation of farmers […]

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Keeping the Family on the Farm

As farmers, we face daily struggles.  Family farms looking to transition from one generation to the next, face even greater challenges. When the children of the family are young, it’s easy to put off future planning.  When they enter the teenage years, their contribution is great and this is, quite possibly, the most productive time for […]

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Estate Planning: Farmers Find Creative Ways To Transition Land

Since every farmer, and every farm, is unique, estate planning should fit the uniqueness of a situation. This is especially true when transitioning a farm to a new owner. One of the key elements of any transition is fairness – to the owner and the new owner. When the transition involves a direct family member, a common approach is to […]

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Successful Farming – Strategies to Thrive Today and Tomorrow

Whether you have a long, multi-generational background in farming or are a newcomer to the business, successful farming consists of a multitude of components.  Every farm and each farm family is different in their approach, focus, and goals.  In spite of this, there are some new ideas as well as old principles that can help secure […]

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Succession Planning: What Are Your Wants, Needs and Fears?

As farm acreage becomes more costly pushed higher by institutional investors, managing an affordable transfer of farm assets complicates Succession Planning.  For many farmers close to retirement age, decisions concerning farm transfer must try to accommodate disparate goals.  For example, farm succession planning may involve accommodating career-minded heirs who want to preserve the family farm […]

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Multigenerational Farming: New Models for a New Generation

Heritage breeds, CSAs, farmer’s markets, artisan cheese: farming is getting an injection of cool from farmers looking to change the face of agriculture in America. Clean food, slow food, organic food, local food: the movements may be a small part of the agricultural giant, but their share is growing. Consumers are starting to pay attention. They want […]

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Battlefields to Farmfields: Innovative Farm Internships for Returing Veterans

Ground Operations: Battlefields to Farmfields is a multi-award winning short documentary about the training programs and internships being developed by and for returning veterans who have transitioned to farming. Out of 21 million US veterans, 800,000 are unemployed and 100,000 are unemployed and homeless. US farmers are getting older, and young farmers are not stepping up to […]

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