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PeopleFirst™ trains mid-level managers, who affect the highest number of employees. On a dairy, that can be 15 to 20 people.

Despite years of debate in Congress and the country, the Senate immigration bill is really just the beginning salvo.

The state’s $43.5 billion-a-year farm industry depends on a shadow workforce of undocumented Mexican immigrants that’s eroding under economic improvements back home and tighter U.S. border controls.

Applications for Farm Labor Housing assistance are due Sept. 13, 2013.

Mooney calls for immigration reform, points to lack of viable visa program for the dairy industry.

A farmworkers’ rights group is calling on federal safety inspectors not to delay a program of surprise inspections of New York dairy farms.

Video can be far more effective than offering training with written materials because most adults are visual learners.

Farm meetings should have both a tactical and strategic purpose.

The Minnesota minimum wage jumps to $9.50 by 2016. Maryland’s jumps to $10.10 by 2018.

Dollars and Sense dairy columnists give their views on staff training and development.