This week, we are in Gauteng and Limpopo province of South Africa, particularly in Vanderbijlpark and Sterkrivier, respectively, doing land use and management planning 🔥 As part of the process of land use planning, Today I was thinking about you farmers and decided to write ✍ about something a lot of existing and new farmers shy away from and try as much as possible to avoid, that is the topic of death. As a commercial farmer & and entrepreneur, I understand that each day, you wake up every morning and work very hard. When I sit down with a lot of entrepreneurs & farmers and ask them why they put in the number of hours that they do, oftentimes, there are two major reasons and chief motivators for them. The first reason is that they want to provide employment and make a positive contribution to our economy, which is great. The second common reason is that they want to leave a legacy, a future that their children and families can build upon when they are gone. For you, these might also be the chief reasons why you are working so hard. What has me worried, however, especially when it comes to the second reason, is that when I ask my fellow entrepreneurs if they have a succession plan in place or if they have EFFECTIVELY set up something to safeguard their legacy and their children's future, they often don't have anything solid set up. Pause and think about this for a moment... How many famous entrepreneurs or companies have you heard of, who, during their peak days, were very successful and wealthy, only for that wealth to disappear after they passed on? A lot, right? There are two chief reasons why the wealth of most entrepreneurs & businesses disappear after they pass on the main one being mismanagement and the second one being lack of knowledge. If you are working hard farmers to build a legacy for your family and future generations, then you should think hard about how you can secure their future. If you look at the oldest farms that still exist today, like the tea and coffee plantations in eastern highlands, you will see that there are three things in common about them:_ The first one is that Founders of these companies all passed, the 2nd one is that the companies are among the largest in the world and the third is that they have been in existence for 100 years and continue creating generational wealth for the great-great-grandchildren of the original founders. How did the people who created these organizations protect the organizations from their graves? They had land use and management plans. (FACT) When it comes to securing the future of your loved ones, nothing is as powerful as having a land use and management plan! where you, as the farm owner, put solid terms on how your land is supposed to be utilised and how the enterprises managed to run long after you are gone. There are many benefits to getting a land use & management plan, but if I'm to give you only three, it is that 🔜Establishing the following issues before embarking on an agricultural activity: ☑️Farm Potential - This includes the size of the enterprises, annual cropping area (ACA), carrying capacity (CC), and viability/economics of production. ☑️Mechanical conservation requirements - The requirements include the need for road alignment, water ways siting, storm drains that are necessary, contour direction, logical land clearing sequence, fire break siting and lands to be separated or consolidated for agric/ rotational use. ☑️Detail of development priorities among many others to be presented in a SMART documentation! Other professional privileges emanating thereto 1. Integration and compatibility - Our land use planning allows you to integrate existing farm enterprises with new ones, taking into consideration the farm potential. 2. Stay 100% focused on the development priorities - We allow you to know which priorities to focus on and what to shelve. 3. Save time and understand your expenditure. The land use plan comes with well detailed development budgets and feasibility plans for effective investment appraisal. 4. Effectively predict your growth pattern and visualise the growth potential. 5. Farm design and set up- Get a well-designed and easy to follow process on setting up farm structures and farm, paddock designing, and sizing with a land use map 6. Soil analysis and irrigation system compatibility assessment. 7. Farm map through aerial photo interpretation and easy to design drainage 8. Step by step, well-presented and easy to follow documents with the land use plan The land use and management planning takes you to the behind-the-scenes of what the top commercial farmers that are making it in farming have in common! I'm happy to do a land use plan for you Let's talk +263718306324