Failure as Feedback: The 'Growth Mindset' in 2 Parts

Mindsets are central to understanding how human beings and their organizations view opportunities for improvement, how strategies for success are developed, and how execution works out.

Consider the spectrum of agriculture’s operating mindsets that have been analyzed here previously: There’s the:

• ‘Efficiency mindset’ driving industrial practices, the

• ‘Service mindset’ - a key driver for success in farm marketing, and the

• ‘Regenerative mindset’ that lands us in relationships, where healing is the driving force of regeneration in all systems that the human in that mindset interacts with.

Right now, the urgent questions for most commodity grain farmers, are:

1. How should I be marketing last year’s unsold inventories?

2. How can I get through the 2024 growing season best positioned to withstand, possibly, another 1-3 years of low prices and/or bad weather?

It’s a struggle to connect the above three mindsets directly into a strategy to work through the 2 critical questions for grain farm business managers today. Thanks to another great podcast from the Modern Acre, Penny Newman Grain Co.’s Matt Nicoletti offers us a key.