Renee Wiatt serves as the Family Business Management Specialist for the Purdue Institute for Family Business housed in the Department of Agricultural Economics at Purdue University. She also serves as the research and extension specialist for the North Central Regional Center for Rural Development, where she studies the intersection of rural businesses and healthcare. Renee works on Extension and applied research in family-business interface and balance, succession, and family business management. She is a member of the Purdue Extension Succession Planning Team, working on programming and directly with families to guide them through some steps in the succession planning process. Ed is a Purdue Extension Educator in Agriculture and Natural Resources and County Extension Director in Huntington County. He has degrees in Agricultural Economics and Agricultural Education from Purdue University. His focus areas are field crop production and farm business management. Prior to pursuing a career in Extension, Ed worked with farmers in New York and Indiana as a loan officer. His roots are in southwest Indiana where his family has a farming operation