Sitting on my stool in front of the third farm audience of the week, I should not have been surprised to receive the same question for the third time by text: “Elaine, how we do we stop the conflict on our farm?”

There are many factors that go into running a profitable farming operation. In an industry that faces several influencing factors such as new technology, government regulations, climate change, commodity pricing and tariffs, the potential impact on your operation’s bottom line is high.

I hear over and over that meetings are a waste of time, or that they worked for a while and then it wasn’t worth the effort anymore. There are a host of reasons for this ineffectiveness.