are you setting the wrong sort of goals?

Hopefully you have had a chance for a rest and some sort of reset over the last month or so.  Hopefully you are feeling so rested and recharged you are goal setting for the year to come, or refining goals you have set for this coming year at an earlier date. Goal setting is hard…

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ARE YOU YOU? OR ARE YOU YOUR FARM?

When kids are about preschool age one thing we like to teach them is their full name. First name, middle name, last name.  Poor Dan got a bit confused and for a short and delightful period thought his full name was not just  Daniel John Quade, but Daniel John Quade and Sons.  As adults we…

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Dealing with inequity in our equal farming business

Family partnerships are really common in ag. Sometimes they are structured as partnerships but companies, family trusts or even as employer/employee relationships are also common. Regardless of structure we often have siblings working together, and parents and adult children working together in farming businesses.  One thing that has come up a few times in discussions…

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