by Elaine Froese | Apr 9, 2020 | Uncategorized
A weary-looking farm woman waits patiently in line making sure she is the last one to speak to me privately after my keynote. She has just one question. “When is the right time to start including our daughter-in-law in family business meetings? She doesn’t know a...
by Elaine Froese | Jun 18, 2019 | Uncategorized
This article was originally posted on October 17, 2017, and has been updated. Does it ever feel like your spouse pays more attention to crop production than they do to you? These cracks really start to show when farm couples don’t build strong partnerships. I’d like...
by Elaine Froese | May 21, 2019 | Uncategorized
This article was initially published on April 26, 2016, and has been updated. I want farm couples to be happier in their relationships; as love partners and as farm partners. Sometimes I ask the hard questions that irk people. But they know they need to deal with...
by Elaine Froese | May 12, 2019 | Uncategorized
I am looking at my bare garden, waiting for the soil to warm up. The guys are busy in the fields, we’ve been seeding since April 26th. We are celebrating having our family close this weekend. I wish my farm Mom was still alive, she passed away in 1998 at age 65, but I...
by Elaine Froese | Jul 10, 2018 | Uncategorized
Susan Forward who authored “Emotional Blackmail” has a simple tool changing the way people have always done things. She says all you have to ask is “Where is it written?”. This is great! As we continue to get further into 2018, many farmers are stuck in...