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Engaging Agriculture

Engaging Agriculture
This article begins a new series aimed at helping farm and ranch owners who are facing this crossroads in succession. MARIA TIBBETS

Navigating farm succession without a family heir: Embracing change and coping with loss

“Every day when I would leave for work, and again when I would come home, I would walk past our key basket at the front door and see his keys in there.Walking past that basket was this constant little reminder that he was deployed, (physically gone), you know, overseas, but he was always here with me, (psychologically present), in my thoughts.”

A colleague of mine shared this story with me about her personal experience embracing change and coping with an ambiguous loss during her spouse’s deployment in 2010.

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