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Prevent Quitting: Keep Employees Top of Mind in 2024
Prevent Quitting: Keep Employees Top of Mind in 2024

These 10 steps can help keep your employees from walking away.

Vision Meets Fortitude In This Next Gen Cattleman
Vision Meets Fortitude In This Next Gen Cattleman

Grounded by his family but propelled by vision, Trey Wasserburger is the energetic force behind creating more processing capacity for local cattle producers.

The Top 6 Survival Tips for Raising Teen Farm Kids
The Top 6 Survival Tips for Raising Teen Farm Kids

Raising teens isn’t for the faint of hearts. Raising teens is not easy and while many of those years are spent watching our children thrive on and off the farm, other times we are just trying to survive.

How a Livestock Barn Helped One Iowa School Flourish
How a Livestock Barn Helped One Iowa School Flourish

It’s one thing to tell students about livestock production; it’s another thing to show them. Here's why one Iowa school is turning heads and opening people's eyes to the opportunities in livestock production.

Young Farmers Build Dream Farm, One Piece At A Time
Young Farmers Build Dream Farm, One Piece At A Time

Brendan and Elaine Martin are building their dream farm — one piece at a time. 

Meet the Farm Kid Who Became the Youngest Green Beret on a Daring U.S. Military Mission
Meet the Farm Kid Who Became the Youngest Green Beret on a Daring U.S. Military Mission

Terry Buckler, a Missouri farm kid, shares the story of his time as a Green Beret and the historic raid on Son Tay prison in Vietnam.

Horizon Award Honors Husband-and-Wife Team for Their Drive and Focus
Horizon Award Honors Husband-and-Wife Team for Their Drive and Focus

Congratulations to Martin Angus, the 2022 recipient of the Tomorrow’s Top Producer Horizon Award. Take a virtual trip to their diversified operation nestled in the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia.

Don’t Play Favorites with Your Farm Employees
Don’t Play Favorites with Your Farm Employees

Here are five bad habits to break to be a better farm leader.

The Road to Becoming a Better Manager
The Road to Becoming a Better Manager

While the road to becoming a better manager isn’t any easy one, there are a few steps you can take to not only improve your work performance, but your team’s performance as well.

When Your Plate Is Too Full: Tips to Delegate and Manage the Workload
When Your Plate Is Too Full: Tips to Delegate and Manage the Workload

Do you ever feel overwhelmed, overloaded, scattered? Generally, pandemic or not, leaders feel at least a little bit this way all the time, explains leadership coach Marlene Eick. She says the question is, is this ok?

Here's a Sign Your Management Team Isn’t On It’s ‘A Game’
Here's a Sign Your Management Team Isn’t On It’s ‘A Game’

Utilizing an effective management team can help you. As the owner or leader of your business, spend less time on the non-urgent and non-important tasks or duties that pop up every day.

Use Emotional Intelligence to Tackle The Tough Stuff
Use Emotional Intelligence to Tackle The Tough Stuff

“If you can manage these moments, the world is yours,” says Dr. JP Pawliw-Fry.

Dr. Barry Flinchbaugh
K-State Mourns Loss of Esteemed Agricultural Economics Professor

The charismatic Dr. Barry Flinchbaugh was well known as a leading expert on agricultural policy and agricultural economics. For more than four decades he was a top adviser to politicians of both major political parties.

You’re rooted in science, but when great and immediate need comes along, don’t forget there’s an awful lot of your job that is still an exercise in art.
Miranda Reiman: The Art Of The Fix 

4-H prep should be an Olympic sport. Or at least it felt that way as Miranda Reiman helped her older kids get ready for entry day at the county fair.

Raised during the early years of commercial cattle feeding, Bill Foxley built one of the largest cattle feeding and ranching enterprises in the U.S.
2019 Cattle Feeders Hall of Fame: Bill Foxley Focuses on the Details

Raised during the early years of commercial cattle feeding, Bill Foxley built one of the largest cattle feeding and ranching enterprises in the U.S.

James Herring’s innovation and commitment to improving the quality of beef throughout the industry helped build an industry giant.
2019 Cattle Feeders Hall of Fame: James Herring, A Visionary Leader

James Herring’s innovation and commitment to improving the quality of beef throughout the industry helped build an industry giant.

Until you know how to coach and enable the next generation, you can’t possibly identify what transcendent “new” skills they have and unleash them.
Managing Millennial Employees Takes Leadership

Instead of pointing out what we view as the major millennial flaws in our employee workforce, we need to find ways to cultivate success through the employee talent that is there takes great leadership and tolerance.

Harvesting corn on the Weihmeir farm.
Nebraska Teen Takes over Family Farm While Father is Ill

Nebraska Teen Takes over Family Farm while Father is ill