Jul 5, 2026 · 36 min · 13 segments
Farmer's daughter Amy Hughes explains how she came to set up her own business helping farming families tackle the difficult conversations that can often make the difference as to the survival of the…
about having the end goal in mind? So if it is ultimately that this farm will be passed on to the next generation or not...
none of them might be interested.
Having that goal in mind isn't enough.
It's the pre-work that goes on maybe decades ahead of it that you have to untap.
Yeah, because that might be the thought in the older generation's mind, mum or dad, but have they asked what the younger generation want? Have they thought about what life looks like for them when they step away from the farm or step sideways, whatever? Have they thought about that? It's not all about handing the farm over.
You know, there's day-to-day stuff that goes on on a farm, especially now when there's so much change in the industry.
Even things like changing your grazing rotation, changing your breed of sheep, whatever.
You know, marriages fail because the son or daughter, the farming son or daughter feels torn between the business and the parents and the marriage.
So, you know, sometimes you bring people together, you know, when I work with farming families and they're very much on the same page, they just haven't said it, which is brilliant.
Sometimes you bring them together and they are poles apart and they had no idea they were so far apart, not a clue.
about having the end goal in mind? So if it is ultimately that this farm will be passed on to the next generation or not...
none of them might be interested.
Having that goal in mind isn't enough.
It's the pre-work that goes on maybe decades ahead of it that you have to untap.
Yeah, because that might be the thought in the older generation's mind, mum or dad, but have they asked what the younger generation want? Have they thought about what life looks like for them when they step away from the farm or step sideways, whatever? Have they thought about that? It's not all about handing the farm over.
You know, there's day-to-day stuff that goes on on a farm, especially now when there's so much change in the industry.
Even things like changing your grazing rotation, changing your breed of sheep, whatever.
You know, marriages fail because the son or daughter, the farming son or daughter feels torn between the business and the parents and the marriage.
So, you know, sometimes you bring people together, you know, when I work with farming families and they're very much on the same page, they just haven't said it, which is brilliant.
Sometimes you bring them together and they are poles apart and they had no idea they were so far apart, not a clue.
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