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Kelli Payne Offers Insight on How to Diversify Your Operation |
At the Oklahoma Cattlemen’s Foundation Spring Seminar, Associate Farm Editor Reagan Calk had the chance to catch up with one of the featured speakers, Kelli Payne. Payne gave a captivating presentation about her personal experience of diversifying her own operation and provided advice and insight on how to take the first steps.
“A lot of times, we look at our outfit, and we think, ‘gosh, this only has one use,’ and my family and our farm is proof that you can diversity in a manner where you are opening up to the public,” Payne said.
Payne talked about how there may be new ways of income right in front of your eyes, and it just takes looking at things in a different light. One of the ways Payne increased diversity on their operation was by allowing people to come and take photoshoots on the property.
“I am a big fan of saying, ‘let’s try it one time,’” Payne said. “The fear of failure is just something you are going to have to remove sometimes. I like to call it ‘failing forward.’ If we don’t take the chances and see what else is out there, we are maybe missing an opportunity.”
Producers in agriculture are constantly being urged to share their stories, Payne said, and a great way to do that is by opening the doors to your operation and providing educational opportunities there.
“Folks are hungry for agriculture,” Payne said.
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