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Expanding your family farming operation can be an exciting time for you and your team. Hiring new farm employees, however, is just the begin..

Legal and effective human resources practices are an essential part of every business. Auditing those practices can help an organization ach..

  Winter Conference 2022 Round-up  Fellowship and networking are two of the highlights of the FamilyFarms LLC conferences held annually for ..

We all acknowledge that farming costs are insane this year. We’re seeing this across industries, but the ag industry seems uniquely affected..

While futures prices represent 90% to 95% of the flat price of grain, don’t underestimate the value in the basis component. According to Chi..

The FamilyFarms LLC Summer Conference, with the theme “Back to the Future: Part II,” was held in Chesterfield, Missouri, on July 26-28, 2021..

Some people may read that title and expect a “silver lining” type of lesson. While some people may have something to say along these lines, ..

The principles of Lean Six Sigma apply to any type of work and business, including the day-to-day operations on your farm. Let’s look at a f..

Carbon credits is the new hot topic in agriculture, and it seems like we can’t go a day without a new company throwing their name into the h..

When you consider your farming operation and where you hope to lead it, what does success look like, both short-term and in the distant futu..

We don’t like to think about accidents happening on our farms, even though we work in one of the most dangerous industries around. Thinking ..

What’s your vision for your farm’s future? What kind of leader are you? Henry Kissinger defined leadership as “the ability to take people fr..

As farming operations grow and become more complex, the task of the general manager becomes more difficult. There are a myriad of details in..

Why would you need a grant of authority?

USDA recently announced the USDA Pandemic Assistance for Producers. There are 3 basic parts to this announcement:  Changes and additional pa..

Farmers know it’s tough to do it all. And it’s even tougher to do it all well. On every farm, countless critical details combine into the ov..