The Iceberg of Farm Family Relationships

The iceberg can be used to depict the family farm business.

Only about 10% of the success or failure of the operation has to do with that part of the business you can see with your eyes — land, machinery, buildings, livestock etc.

The other 90% of the business — everything below "the waterline" is the stuff that nobody wants to talk about — the personal relationship issues that literally can make or break the farm.

Successful farming businesses have learned to manage the top and bottom parts of the iceberg equally well.

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