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Will your farm survive into the next generation? If it does, two reasons will be your effort in making a clear commitment to keep the family farm and to groom successors who will be good managers in their own right. The succession and eventual agriculture success of the next generation depends on relationships within the family and astute farm management.

By early adolescence, teens have formed their feelings about farming. This is based on their attachments to the land, close ...

Question. What do you think is the most important management tool for farmers and ranchers? Marketing? Precision farming? Financial analysis aided by computer applications? Diversification? Wrong!

Human relationship skills are what farmers and ranchers need to master in order to get to the next level of management. Why do I say this? Consider these factors:

- A happy marriage. A farmer who has an equal and mutually supportive relationship with his wife wi ...

How do you keep the peace, have family love and harmony and run a demanding business with family members? How do you keep business and family relationships straight? Do business conflicts ruin family togetherness? Can family togetherness interfere in resolving important problems in farm and ranch management? Here are six essential elements for running a successful multi-family or multi-generation family farm or ranch.

1. Selection of compatible partners. Not all children ...