Emotional intelligence has become a significant topic for development and mentoring as well as a key criterion for management and leadership positions.

Imaginez que vous ayez le pouvoir de contrôler tous les aspects de votre ferme : rentabilité, production, santé animale, réforme, succès de la reproduction…

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? 

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.

It's not so much about who bought the tractor as it is how they bought it ....

Does the right hand know what the left hand is doing on your farm?  
The truth is: On a lot of farms, partners couldn’t tell you what their other partners are planning on doing the next day.

Second marriages can present a unique challenge for farm succession planning. The challenge occurs when one or both spouses have children from a prior marriage.