It’s easy to get pulled into negative headlines. Input costs are high. Margins are tight. Markets are volatile. Interest rates aren’t what they were four years ago. But step back for a minute. We are living in a golden age of agriculture.

Most farmers don’t struggle because they lack work ethic. They struggle because they stop asking.

If you don’t care where your life ends up, it doesn’t matter whether you have goals or what you do in your day-to-day life.

And in the same region there were shepherds out in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night.

For many farmers across the Midwest, this past year was one of the hardest in recent memory.

When management pays

Hire slow, fire fast

Failure