Your farm transition journey
Welcome to the heart of my work. Writing to farm families has been my privilege for over 25 years. Themes stem from threads of conversations with farm families keen to live in harmony and find new ways to manage their business.
This is a journey.
Please share these insights with your farm family and agriculture networks. It’s high time for a mindset shift in the culture of agriculture. Procrastination and conflict avoidance need to stop. Embracing a growth mindset with transparency of expectations and emotions starts now.
Dive in here with me, I’m here to listen and encourage. Share your comments.

Help! My parents have loads of debt we don’t want!
“Every front door looks beautiful” is one of my favourite Irish sayings. It came to mind in Deadwood South Dakota, in the Black Hills where I was listening to the woes of a young ranch couple. They have a strong desire to ranch as “debt-free” as possible, but her...

When it is hard to honour Mom what can I do?
https://youtu.be/2ymUQicKNUs Coming to terms with a farm mom who is difficult to deal with may not be what you were expecting to read. After decades of coaching farm families, one might expect that farm moms always are collaborative and willing to negotiate...

How to write a will with joy!
https://youtu.be/k8BfcHmHCeA I want you to read this column and act. I recently did a virtual presentation with 120 farmers and many of them did not have wills in place. Stop procrastination now! I’ve encountered folks who are all dealing with different kinds...

Stop the in-law rant, change your behaviour
An American farm woman who moved from Florida to become part of a family farm in the cornfields of Iowa called me one day to say “ Elaine I am tired of all the ranting on social media about problems with in-laws. Something needs to shift, and we need to see...

Cowboys coached to embrace courageous communication
In the Black Hills of Deadwood South Dakota Young Farmers and Ranchers had many texts for me at a presentation on Jan 21, 2022, my first in-person event in over 20 months. When I asked the group of cowboys in their black Stetsons what was the one thing they grasped...
Fixing Your Time Stress Mess
60 minutes
Workaholics will discover helpful strategies for managing their time stress. Gain understanding for the tensions of your age and stage on the farm. Learn why some problems are not solvable, but just need to be managed as polarities. Self-renewing people are joyful and productive producers.
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