Australasian Agribusiness Perspectives

Putting The Family Back Into The Family Farm – 6/2

by | Jan 7, 1998 | 1998, Volume 1

1998, Volume 1, Paper 6/2
ISSN: 2209-6612

Putting The Family Back Into The Family Farm

Paper 2 (of a series of 6 papers)

Geoff Tually – Senior Lecturer, Institute of Land and Food Resources, The University of Melbourne

Every family farm business has the opportunity to provide business experience for farm family members and most farm family businesses will need to grow, if broad family goals (Paper 1) are to be achieved.

This paper looks at the following three (3) aspects:

  • Exploiting the opportunity to teach farm family members business skills;
  • The level or type of opportunities to involve family members in the farm family business;
  • Using the expertise of farm service providers.

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