In this series we discuss 2 critically important aspects: effective communication and training. When you work with people you enter a different world from machines or any other farming system. You can, to a large extent, control or manage machines, production, harvesting, packing and even marketing. When it comes to…
All the technical knowledge in the world means nothing if you can’t work with your staff. Managing people is the most challenging area for any farm manager or owner. The mistake some smaller farmers make is to think human resource management (HRM) is only for big companies; in fact, it…
Farmers like to try new things – crops, cultivation methods, equipment – but it’s easy to get carried away… and to lose money. You can avoid both and make a success of your chosen type of farming by retaining focus. How many times have you heard somebody say how much…
A common decision farmers must make is whether to expand their farming operations or diversify them. Here are some basic rules. A sustainable farming business should never stop changing, evolving, adapting and growing. The easy part is saying all that in one sentence. The difficult part is making it a…
