However, thinking about what needs to happen, and when, can make it easier.

Marinna resident Margaret Kanaley said succession planning could be a difficult topic as a farm wasn't just fields or fences.

"It's an uncomfortable thing to talk about; if you've got a tyre shop or plumbing business, you don't live there," she said.

"It's why it's so emotive, it's your family home, where your children have grown up.

"It involves family and every family is different, it's not just the current farmers, it can be generations of family."

While retirement or death can prove a catalyst for succession, Junee solicitor Michael Commins said it wasn't as simple as just calling it a day.

"It's all about having a discussion," Mr Commins said.

"Being on the farm is a seven- day-a-week job, you get little time to socialise and you don't want to be talking about work then," he said.

Mr Commins said that often the family farm was a business with many different options for succession that needed to be considered.

"It's the family business, you make something and you market something ... and in a business you have an exit strategy," he said.

"You just can't get up at 5am until you fall over."

Questions such as whether the farm is sold, will the children get it, how it occurs, who takes over the mortgage and funding a farmer's retirement were some of the common questions.

To give the farming community a better understanding, a forum will be held in a similar format to the ABC's Q&A program.

Mr Commins said drawing on people's experience - whether it be a succession, agronomic, legal or accounting matters would help get people thinking about their own succession plans.

Facilitated by Coolamon solicitor and North-East Riverina Rural Counselling Service (NERRCS) chairman Bill Thompson it follows similar events around the Riverina.

The forum has come off the back of a request by Junee Library for Mr Thompson to provide more information for local farmers to coincide with the international year of family farming.

"The aim of the forum is to hear how families have dealt with progression and succession planning," Mr Thompson said.

The forum begins at 7pm for 7.30pm on Wednesday August 27 at the Junee Ex-Services Club.