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This article appeared in the January 2026 Edition of the Branding Pot Monthly. If you want the good stuff first, saddle up and join the newsletter—it's where the secrets drop before they hit the corral. Raise your hand if you've ever been at a conference or fancy dinner trying to make your best impression and you feel like you forgot how to be a grown up!  As agricultural producers we often pride ourselves in having the get-er-done, roll-up our sleeves attitudes. We fork feed, we unplug balers, we push the odd prolapse back into a cow- but we also run corporations and that comes with business meetings, board positions and relationship building. I can think of a few times where I've sat down with a table of politicians, a room full of cattle buyers or even just a group of my peers and had 37 forks and at least 3 plates staring back at me. While I remembered the old “work from the outside in” trick, my etiquette lessons ended there. So I researched a few EASY tips & tricks for us all to get through the next fancy dinner, prevent a fiasco and maybe even impress the broker/ investor/ boss/ mentor sitting across from us. Let's leave our belly-up-to-the-bunk attitude at home for a minute and channel our inner Rodeo Queen!  CAVEAT. This isn't to say we need to know these things to run a farm. It's simply a reminder, especially during this conference season, that just because we're farmers and ranchers doesn't mean we also aren't bada** business b*tches. Whether or not we think its valid, people are always judging, and once in a while I like to surprise people with my ability to tame the ferality that typically oozes from my soul. So use these if you want, or scroll on sista. No hard feelings!  LEVEL UP YOUR NETWORKING
Ladies, are we still carrying our business cards? How are we easily sharing contact information after a killer networking event? ARE we sharing contact info? Don't be shy. Get out there and NETWORK girlies! (Do we need a Branding Pot guest presenter on this topic?!) Linked In QR Codes (helpful article linked here) Use Apple NameDrop (tutorial here)
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