Farmers are certainly some of the most resilient people in the world. It takes a certain kind of person to face the types of challenges that farmers face every day to produce a great crop or livestock and keep doing it year after year.

What is resilience? It’s the ability to come back even stronger after facing significant challenges. A few of the biggest challenges in farming come to mind that aren’t within anyone’s direct control. I’m thinking of weather and markets.

Making an impact

The way a farm leader approaches how he or she handles any challenge in the operation, but especially those that are out of their direct control, can show a great deal about the level of resilience they have. When we choose to focus our time and energy on the areas and decisions where we do have control, rather than on those we can’t control, we can make a much bigger impact.

Farmers can also reduce the uncertainty and anxiety that often come along with major challenges by focusing on proactive planning and decision-making. Building more resilience into your operation is another good way to help reduce uncertainty and anxiety.

Three ways to build resilience

Here are three main areas to work on building more resilience into your operation where that will make a big impact.

How are you navigating this market?

Farmers have found that getting some third-party perspective from our market advisors has helped ease their minds. The advisors help farmer clients with planning and execution around marketing decisions and help keep them up to speed on the current rapidly-changing grain market situation – and how it impacts their operation.

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