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NFSHW24: Three-Step Process to Farm Succession Planning
Recorded On: 09/16/2024
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Summary: Research shows that working with other family members and succession planning are top stressors for farmers. This presentation will provide an overview of common barriers to planning for the next generation of owners/managers for family-owned farms. It will discuss recent research on what service professionals need from the owners to better serve their succession planning needs. Kirkpatrick will provide practical tools that those supporting farmers can use to get the important and hard conversations started at the farm/family level. The three-step process provides a framework that farm members can follow and break down into smaller action steps. It blends practical, technical steps with ideas to address the emotional and personal dynamics that can derail succession planning.
Intended Audience: Anyone who wants to learn about the human side of farm succession planning and learn about tools and strategies to help farmers start important conversations. (Extension educators, agricultural service professionals, mental healthcare providers, healthcare providers)
Objectives: At the end of this webinar, participants will be able to…
- Better understand the stresses of farming with family and planning for succession.
- Provide resources to their farming clientele about succession planning.
- Increase their awareness of common tensions of succession planning.
- Increase their awareness of tools and resources they can use with their farming clientele.
- Recognize the barriers to succession planning are more than the technical or transactional components.
The University of Cincinnati, Department of Environmental and Public Health Sciences, Education and Research Center offers 1.0 contact hour for each webinar during National Farm Safety and Health Week. Upon completing the evaluation, learners will receive a certificate of completion. This course can meet continuing education requirements for a variety of professionals including: BGC criteria for IH/CIH professionals, BCSP criteria for safety professionals, CPH criteria for public health professionals.
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Joy Kirkpatrick, MS
Farm Succession Outreach Specialist, University of Wisconsin-Madison Division of Extension
Joy Kirkpatrick has worked for the University of Wisconsin for 31 years. She began her Extension career as a county-based Extension educator. She is now a statewide farm management outreach specialist for UW-Madison Division of Extension. In this position she collaborates with colleagues to provide educational programs and information on farm succession planning. She has extensive experience facilitating farm succession discussions with farm businesses and farm families. Joy grew up on a farrow–to–finish hog farm in Southern Illinois, the youngest of seven. She is honored to work with farm families on some of their most personal issues when working on farm succession planning. She has written articles on retirement planning for farmers and taught seminars throughout the US on farm succession facilitation. Kirkpatrick co-developed the Certified Farm Succession Coordinator training with John Baker that has certified over 350 participants in farm succession planning. She is a certified Mental Health First Aid trainer. Kirkpatrick received both her BS and MS degrees from Southern Illinois University – Carbondale.
