Organizations need leaders – directors to sit on the boards that guide them. For farmers, it’s hard to avoid the call to serve on boards. There are so many, guiding everything from small community groups to large agri-corporations.
Leadership takes a toll in time away from family, friends and farm, but has rewards, too, in the opportunity to make change for the better.
Reporter Sean Pratt talked to several farmers who have devoted part of their lives to boards and to experts who suggests ways to make the leadership experience more rewarding.
