Hoard’s Dairyman Blog – Succession Planning

This is my latest post for the Hoard’s Dairyman Blog – HD Notebook

Raise your hand if you have an up-to-date, written, signed, notarized personal will? Keep your hand raised if that also contains a succession plan for the farm.

We were asked this question last month at our young cooperatives meeting in Seattle by Elaine Froese who is a farm family succession planning coach.

I will be honest that my hand was not among the few that were raised. It’s one of those items that seems to be a perpetual resident of my to-do list with no clear plan on how to proceed. I left Elaine’s session feeling like I had tools to start tackling succession planning.

The first step is having the right strategy to make those hard discussions around farm succession planning as easy as possible…..{Read the rest of Strategize for Succession Planning here}