by Elaine Froese | Jan 14, 2020 | Uncategorized
I was recently flipping through “Fast Company,” one of my favourite business magazines. An article caught my eye describing “Millennials.” You know, those people in the workforce who were born after 1978. There were several insights about what made millennials tick....
by Elaine Froese | Dec 17, 2019 | Uncategorized
Many next-generation farmers that I coach are sick of complaining. They want this year to be the year they FINALLY gain some equity. Farmers love carrots, don’t you know? They dangle the proverbial carrot for years in front of the next generation, to keep the...
by Elaine Froese | Nov 19, 2019 | Uncategorized
Farming is one of those businesses where you live at your workplace. There’s no line between work and home. It seems work is always just out the back door (because it is!) This can cause a farmer to become a workaholic. The reality is, working too much is killing...
by Elaine Froese | Oct 16, 2019 | Uncategorized
I wish you could have been there to see it. I was speaking to a farm couple and when I asked, “when is it your wife’s turn to get what she wants?”, I saw the farmer’s wife poke him in the arm. Older farm men usually hate it when I ask that question—they’re very...
by Elaine Froese | Sep 17, 2019 | Uncategorized
I could feel the frustration and pain as I read her lengthy email describing an all too common scenario for farm families on the topic of inheriting farmland. It looks like this: Aging parents have been pressured to be “fair” to the siblings who don’t farm. And the...