With the holidays and the year 2000 behind, it is time to think about organizing or reorganizing farm operations for the new year. During cold weather, producers may want to sit down and evaluate their management strategies.
Many producers already implement wise management strategies in their enterprises.
For them, the focus should be on ways to make their enterprise even better. For those who are not quite up to par, now is a good time to start over and get things in order. In fact, everyone can make their operation better in some way. They set priorities that change as situations change and then evaluate how well their plan is working to achieve their goals. Amaral-Phillips suggested three traits of successful managers planning, implementation, and evaluation.