For Joas and Lisa, a clear retirement goal provides a framework for decision-making all through their farming career.

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What’s the right age for Mom and Dad to step back? It might be a lot younger than we have traditionally thought

Reading Time: 9 minutes It is an early fall afternoon, and while their four young children bounce across this picturesque New Brunswick dairy farm, 35-year-old Joas van Oord and his wife Lisa talk about their dreams. In the barn, that same afternoon, the farm’s 58-year-old patriarch, Maarten van Oord shows off the farm’s new robotic milker, and as he […] Read more