Farmers Remember: A Time to Act

Farmers Remember: A Time to Act

Shakespeare wrote, “To be, or not to be: that is the question.” With farmers, it’s “To talk, or not to talk: that is the question.” Or more accurately: “There’s a time to talk and a time to act.”...
Start with Care

Start with Care

In a Harvard Business Review article entitled “The New Science of Customer Emotions” by Scott Magids, Alan Zorfas, and Daniel Leemon, the authors identified 10 “emotional motivators” that solidify customer...
As Good Is Not Good Enough

As Good Is Not Good Enough

What do I mean by “as good is not good enough”? In the book, Killing Sacred Cows, there’s a line that reads:  We only exchange when others have something that we value more than what we currently have. We never trade like value for like value,...
Farmers Put the Pedal to the Metal

Farmers Put the Pedal to the Metal

Farmers Put the Pedal to the Metal After some horrendous spring seasons, this year hopefully promises to be a turnaround for American farmers. Farmers Put the Pedal to the Metal with Spring Planting Crop planting progress shows that corn and soybean planting rates are...