Cash-traded feeder pig reported volume was below average this past week, with 8,943 head reported. Cash feeder pig reported prices were $36.58, up $1.90 per head from last week.

“Most farms don’t have the time, capabilities, perspectives, resources or desire to do all the tasks it takes to run an operation,” says Steve Kluemper, AgriStrategies LLC founder. “A lot of growers hire to fill gaps.”

In your will or trust documents, you name a power of appointment. This means you grant power to an individual to name recipients of all or a portion of your money and property in the future.

How do you set your farm on a profitable and exciting trajectory? Surround yourself with smart people, and then give and take.

“You can begin at any point in the year, but the power of this is that by improving yourself first, others follow,” says Mark Faust, president of Echelon Management.

The first step to winning the war for workers is to keep your star employees happy. Here’s how three farmers retain and attract employees.