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Sometimes the overwhelming demands of farming cause the entire body to slump at the kitchen table. Worn hands stroke graying hair, and eyes are reddened and glassy. Farming is one of those businesses where you live at your workplace.
I’ve consumed a bit too much chocolate in my adventures at the Hershey Lodge in Pennsylvania. You are given a large Hershey bar at check-in, a bag full (more than 10 chocolate pieces with room service breakfast) and chocolate butter at the banquet table.
I’ve just read David Specht’s book, The Farm Whisperer: Secrets to Preserving Families and Perpetuating Farms. It is a great, quick read of inspiring questions for farm families wanting to transition management and ownership to create a successful legacy.
Sometimes the overwhelming demands of farming cause the entire body to slump at the kitchen table. Worn hands stroke graying hair and eyes are reddened and glassy.
“We wish parents understood” was part of the Twitter feed from young farmers attending the AgExcellence Conference held in Regina, Saskatchewan, in November.
Here is the list of the items they wish parents understood:
I envision young farmers as a sea of eager agricultural entrepreneurs looking for new ways to improve themselves and their businesses. Recently, I spoke at the London Swine Conference about “Managing the Generations.”
The number 2020 stares at me from the flip chart paper on my kitchen wall. This farm coach is being coached to set timelines for moving off our farmyard to make room for our successor to live on the main yard.
My parents married Dec. 27, 1955. My brothers each chose to marry that same week in 1984 and 1990. I, being the rebel, got married on Independence Day: July 4, 1981. Wes and I have outlasted Chuck and Di, who married the same year, same month.
“We wish parents understood” was part of the Twitter feed from young farmers attending the AgExcellence Conference held in Regina, Saskatchewan, in November.
Here is the list of the items they wish parents understood:
You are likely exhausted, as you have grabbed this paper for a few moments of “down time.” Stress gives everyone on the farm team a chance to show their true colours as to how they manage mistakes and high tension.
