In this episode, Lisa Foust Prater sits down with Mark McLaughlin, an associate with Farm Financial Strategies, co-owner of Farm Estate GPS in Ankeny, Iowa, and one of the fifth generation to own his family's farm near Defiance, Iowa. He has been helping farm families across the Midwest develop their farm succession strategies for nearly 20 years, and is a regular contributor to the feature, "Can Their Problem Be Solved?" in each issue of Successful Farming magazine.

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