Mike Wind says he’s spent two decades getting his farm’s succession plan in place.
He’s a hay, grain and potato farmer near Purple Springs, Alta., a hamlet about 70 kilometres east of Lethbridge. He and his wife started Windiana Farms in 1989.
One day about 21 years ago, sitting around the dinner table, he asked his five daughters and two sons if any of them had an interest in taking over the family business. After a week thinking it over, his two sons said yes.
“They went to school, graduated, and the plan was that if they wanted to farm, they had to work for
