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Seven ways to streamline your farm transition

Farm Family Coach: It’s not hard to find parallels between this process and your day-to-day business

Lyle Wiens, who coaches farm families and advises on grain marketing, sees parallels between marketing and farm transition planning — two decision-making areas in which farmers can feel overwhelmed.





Mother in the middle

Mother in the middle

Farm Family Coach: This Mother’s Day, work to communicate with each other, not through Mom as an intermediary

When two family members are unable to have effective communication, they often turn to someone else to hear them out. Many times, alas, this is Mom.