REAL TALK: Do Farmers Avoid Transition Planning? | Episode 248 | #transitionplanning

In today’s episode, Tracy chats with Terry Betker in this episode titled “Do Farm Founders Avoid Transition Planning?” Is it finally time to address the elephant in the room? The industry has encouraged farmers to create a transition plan for decades, yet little progress has been made. So, one needs to ask, do farmers purposefully avoid transition planning? In this week’s episode, Tracy and Terry speak about:

• If farmers know they need to do transition planning and plenty of information is available, why are they not doing it?
• Is it finally time to address the elephant in the room? Are farm founders purposefully avoiding this subject? Tracy and Terry open the cans of words and get to some real talk about transition.
• Tracy has also noticed that it tends to be the farmwife, farm mom, female farm founder who pushes the subject of transition planning. She asks Terry if he has observed this, and they chat about gender differences, concerns, and roles on the farm.
• She asks Terry what he has noticed in his over 30 years of experience working with farm families on transition. Why do farmers avoid transition planning?
• What are ways to help farmers want to make this transition before it’s too little too late?

Tracy and Terry discuss matters in this episode that are rarely discussed…the humanness, immortality, and conflicting desires of the farm founder. If you are looking for a deep, meaningful, honest conversation on transition planning, you will want to tune into this episode.

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