Source:  John Hart, FARM PROGRESS, 9/8/22


Of all the presentations at this year’s Blackland Farm Managers Tour Aug. 3 at Southland Farms and Howell Farms in Pantego, N.C., one of the most pressing had nothing to do with boosting corn yields or managing fertility. Jolene Brown, who farms corn and soybeans with her husband near West Branch in eastern Iowa, gave a talk, “Stop the Fighting on the Way to the Funeral Home.” Her bottom-line message: A family farm is a business first and foremost.

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