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Consulting group CEO urges farmers to use good business sense
The head of a farm consulting group says that in spite of agriculture’s changing landscape, sound business practices can keep families on farms. FamilyFarms Group CEO Allen Lash tells Brownfield that farmers need good business sense to survive the consolidation happening in agriculture. He says he’d like to keep as many in business as possible, but it’s a big challenge.
“The job is to say ‘the farmers that want to stay, what are the skills that they need to have to stay,’” Lash told Brownfield at the group’s Winter Conference in St. Louis Tuesday.
Nonetheless, Lash says he’s encouraged about agriculture’s future.
“It’s marvelous,” he said.
He acknowledges that crop farming is cyclical and that cycle is currently low.
“But the people that have the right skill set right now, they’re probably going to have an unparalleled opportunity,” he said, “just like the people that developed the skill sets to get through the eighties and were able to come out on the other side of that.”
FamilyFarms Group consults with producers whose farms are about 1,500 acres and larger. The conference is focused primarily on the financial side of crop farming.
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