A Farm Progress article
While Austin Copenhaver's story shows what a successful nonfamily partnership looks like in practice, farm consultants who work with these arrangements every day say the same handful of principles separate the ones that thrive from the ones that fall apart.
Mike Hosterman, a consultant with Farm Credit East, has advised hundreds of farm families and nonfamily partners over the years. He said he's seen more nonfamily partnerships emerge in the past few years, and the key to making them work starts long before any papers are signed.
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