When you look at your business do you see chaos, or do you see a well-oiled machine? Chances are it’s chaos, and chaos leads to burn out. Business structure, clean books, loan management, tax strategy, and cash-flow management all counter the chaos and burn out. If you have chaos in your business life, chances are it has spread throughout all areas of your life.  

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It is so important to know how the decisions you make today will affect your operation later on down the road, and the only way to know that is by knowing your numbers. Our Farmer Metrics software has given our members a level of understanding and confidence in their numbers that they have never had before. We need to be looking at our numbers far more often than once a year.

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We can all learn from other people’s mistakes without having to make them ourselves. We have had so many members have one bad year that they end up paying for over the next 3, 7, or even 20 years, without even realizing that is what they are doing. This is exactly what you are doing by terming-out your losses from one bad year over multiple years. 

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Today I’m joined by Weston Birkeland, a 4th generation farmer who grows mostly wheat and barley on about 20K acres in Montana. We take a deep dive and discuss how Legacy Farmer has impacted absolutely every aspect of his life and business in only 3 short weeks. 

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In this episode we feature a recent on boarding call with some of our newest members and how the community inside of Legacy Farmer is boosting their confidence to new levels. 

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We all have the assumption that when we move back to work on the family operation that one day we’ll take it over or at the least buy them out of the operation. This assumption holds true until we find out that the family member that we want to take over for or buy out is in massive, crushing debt. Until you see their numbers and cashflow, you know nothing about your family’s operation. 

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We are conditioned to see mistakes as failure, but the truth is we should see them as the stepping off point in the journey that God has laid out for us. At least in making a mistake you are doing something and decisions are being made. There is so much power in just getting off zero and making moves to get your life where you want it to be. Mistakes are good because they always bring lessons and growth.

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Today, Andy and I discuss why we put our bankers on a pedestal and have complete blind trust in them and what they do and say. We aren’t taught what we need to know when going in to deal with the bank and in many cases we work with bankers that our family has for decades. Many of the people working in the bank are not in a position to be giving business advice.

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If you are stuck in victimhood you will never achieve anything, all while wondering why good things won't happen to you. It’s easy to play the victim, it’s much harder to find, and learn the lesson in each situation. Once I stopped settling and started taking action everything started to fall into place and God rewarded me.

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So many times in family-run operations we just blindly trust the family members we are in business with and we dread even thinking about having the hard conversations with them about where the business actually stands. Sometimes you need to demand to have the hard conversations and force structure into the operation, because it’s your family and livelihood on the line too. Other Times, you need to walk away.

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