NFSHW24: Three-Step Process to Farm Succession Planning

Summary: Research shows that working with other family members and succession planning are top stressors for farmers. This presentation will provide an overview of common barriers to planning for the next generation of owners/managers for family-owned farms. It will discuss recent research on what service professionals need from the owners to better serve their succession planning needs. Kirkpatrick will provide practical tools that those supporting farmers can use to get the important and hard conversations started at the farm/family level. The three-step process provides a framework that farm members can follow and break down into smaller action steps. It blends practical, technical steps with ideas to address the emotional and personal dynamics that can derail succession planning. 

Intended Audience: Anyone who wants to learn about the human side of farm succession planning and learn about tools and strategies to help farmers start important conversations. (Extension educators, agricultural service professionals, mental healthcare providers, healthcare providers) 

Objectives: At the end of this webinar, participants will be able to…

1. Better understand the stresses of farming with family and planning for succession. 
2. Provide resources to their farming clientele about succession planning. 
3. Increase their awareness of common tensions of succession planning. 
4. Increase their awareness of tools and resources they can use with their farming clientele. 
5. Recognize the barriers to succession planning are more than the technical or transactional components. 

Presenter: Joy Kirkpatrick, MS, Farm Succession Outreach Specialist, University of Wisconsin-Madison Division of Extension 

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