GRAND FORKS, N.D. - Planting, nurturing, harvesting and marketing crops on a farm is challenging. Passing on that farm to heirs or others can be even more difficult, a farm transition specialist said.

Strategic farm succession conversations help preserve generational wealth through proper planning and family communication.

LA CRESCENT, Minn. — Harry and Jackie Hoch have operated a diversified fruit operation for over 35 years, and are now trying to figure out their exit strategy. The couple are owners of Hoch Orchard & ...

OTTAWA, Ontario, Dec. 04, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Farm Management Canada, together with partners across Canada’s agricultural community, is proud to announce that Farm Transition Appreciation Day ...

MANTORVILLE, Minn. — In Minnesota, the average farm operator's age in 2012 was 56.6. In Iowa, that number was 57.1. That means significant farmland will soon be transitioned on from its original ...

Ron Rabou spent the first 26 years of his life expecting to return to his 5th generation family ranch in Wyoming. When his father passed and it came time to put pen to paper in the farm transition, ...

Graywood Farms LLC is located in southern Lancaster County. It is owned by Lisa Graybeal, her brother, Byron, and her dad, Steve. “We milk 700 Holstein cows on 1,300 acres,” Lisa Graybeal says. “We ...

Don Strickler has faced many tough calls in his long farming career. But the 70-year-old Euclid, Minn., producer says his most important professional challenge, one he’s still working on, is passing ...

New Farm Journal research explores six keys highlighting consolidation risk, regional divides and expansion sweet spots in a ...