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Own your future: Answers to some of the toughest succession planning questions

A candid discussion about planning for and going through farm transitions by a panel at a recent conference.
March 3, 2023
Emily Barge

Succession planning is about owning your future and controlling your farm’s destiny. In a recent panel discussion at the “Own Your Future Forum” hosted by the Professional Dairy Managers of Pennsylvania (PDMP) and Center for Dairy Excellence, five panelists from all sectors of the industry had a candid conversation about taking control of the future.


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Are economies of scale everything?

Embracing change, changing poor habits into better ones and working as a team can lead to a more-successful farming operation, regardless of the size of the farm.
February 15, 2023
Andy (Caygeon) Junkin

People will argue that economies of scale is the determining factor for which farms will succeed and which will fail. Is this what you believe? 


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[Podcast] Resources to resolve tense situations and difficult conversations

January 31, 2023

In this episode of the Progressive Dairy Podcast, host Kimmi Devaney is joined by Jenna Muller and Mary Campbell from the California Ag Mediation Program to discuss a resource that can help you resolve some of the tense situations and difficult conversations that inevitably come up while managing a business, especially one with your family. Mediation can assist with transitioning the farm from one generation to another, diffuse tense situations with neighbors and assist with multiple other situations. 


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The right kind of stubborn

Tips for using your stubbornness to improve your farm and your family relationships.
January 23, 2023
Andy (Caygeon) Junkin

Grandma was crying at the end of the kitchen table, and hate was too mild of a word to describe the feelings the two sisters-in-law had for one another.


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The 5 C’s of generational continuity of the dairy

Cash flow, management and ownership contingency plans, compensation, communication and conflict are five factors that can make or break generational continuity.
December 29, 2022
Dave Specht

Unfortunately, there is no magic recipe that will guarantee the preservation of your family relationships and the perpetuation of the dairy. There are, however, five key ingredients that if not planned for will almost assuredly lead to blackened heartache, tasteless family dynamics and burned chances of the dairy succeeding generationally.


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Before the in-laws become the outlaws

Giving a farm successor opportunities to make big decisions prior to choosing a spouse, avoiding a “sister wives” scenario, teaching them to live within their means, setting a succession plan before a successor’s spouse is involved, and practicing what you preach will reduce conflict between parents and new sons- or daughters-in-law along and between the farm’s successor and non-farming siblings.
December 2, 2022
Andy (Caygeon) Junkin

For a lot of farm families, the in-laws quickly become the outlaws due to factors you’d never consider.


After a decade of sorting out the direst farm succession and farm debt cases, I have found that dysfunctional in-law relationships are often a key underlying ingredient to these problems. Really good families are hit by landmines of the in-law kind, and everything explodes. If these families knew what those landmines were before they stepped into them, they would have been able to avoid them.


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[Podcast] Michele Payn: How stress impacts your farm and what you can do about it

October 24, 2022
Kimmi Devaney

In this episode of the Progressive Dairy Podcast, host Kimmi Devaney visits with author and well-known speaker Michele Payn about stress – what it is, how it manifests, how it impacts our farms, and most importantly, what we can do about it. Michele is passionate about agriculture and has connected with a multitude of audiences about utilizing science to connect people across the food plate, in addition to advocacy, mental health and much more.


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Killing anxiety on the family farm

Lack of transparent understanding regarding succession planning can increase anxiety and stress while causing division within the family.
October 21, 2022
Andy (Caygeon) Junkin

There are a lot of farmers in their 30s and 40s who don’t know what their future looks like.  The truth be told: 77% of farms don't have a succession plan. And this obviously has a lot to do with why only 12% of farms pass onto the third generation!


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Transition plan, robotics strengthen family’s dairy legacy

Strong family relationships and outside advisers position Kurtland Farms for another generation.
September 9, 2022
Jayne Sebright and Emily Barge

For fourth-generation dairy producer Jared Kurtz, managing the income-generating capabilities of a dairy herd and farm are important for the future, but investing energy in family is foundational to building a dairy legacy.


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From one farm kid to all the others out there

Four considerations for transition planning include persistence, open communication, understanding how setting up business entities will affect the operation and developing a will.
September 9, 2022
Kenny Nearhoof

Transition/succession/estate planning can be intimidating, but here are four points that I hope ease some fears, answer questions and light a fire under you to stop procrastinating.


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