Dairy - General
Los litigios por salarios y por horas extras son las demandas que más están creciendo en los Estados Unidos.
Dangerous bulls, heavy machinery and treacherous manure pits can all pose hazards on a dairy. Follow these safety precautions.
The more agriculture does to practice good judgment and safety with children working on farms, the less likely stringent rules will be imposed.
Nearly two-thirds of respondents to California Farm Bureau Federation survey experienced labor challenges in 2012.
It’s about what the dairy needs, not what family members or employers want their responsibilities to be, Ohio professor says at Expo seminar.
The pervasive “Employee of the Month” incentive is a poor strategy for motivating employee productivity.
The giant yogurt maker foresees “negative” business conditions in Europe being more than offset by emerging markets.
Farm groups agreed on a rolling visa limit for immigrant farmworkers and minimum wages for laborers, resolving sticking points on the path toward revised U.S. immigration law.
“The approach in this agreement is better for employers, better for employees, better for law enforcement, better for the economy – better for America.” --Jeryr Kozak, NMPF.
Dairies struggle with U.S. immigration laws that were designed for seasonal farm laborers instead of the year-round, seven-days-a-week ones they need.
NMPF CEO Jerry Kozak says agreement is positive step forward in securing agricultural work force.
‘See It? Stop It!’ initiative to be a component of National Dairy FARM Program.
Bipartisan bill’s ‘blue card’ would allow farmers to keep their existing workforce.
Mooney calls for immigration reform, points to lack of viable visa program for the dairy industry.
Despite years of debate in Congress and the country, the Senate immigration bill is really just the beginning salvo.
PeopleFirst™ trains mid-level managers, who affect the highest number of employees. On a dairy, that can be 15 to 20 people.
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.
A South Carolina prison program helps inmates develop marketable skills by working with its dairy herd.
Dollars and Sense dairy columnists give their views on staff training and development.
Dollars and Sense dairy columnists give their views on staff training and development.
Dollars and Sense dairy columnists give their views on staff training and development.
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.
Look for those “grey areas” that may be costing you money and workers.
A farmworkers’ rights group is calling on federal safety inspectors not to delay a program of surprise inspections of New York dairy farms.
The Minnesota minimum wage jumps to $9.50 by 2016. Maryland’s jumps to $10.10 by 2018.
Dairy group unhappy that “elected officials could not set aside partisan politics to address the dysfunctional policy” of the U.S. immigration system.
Training modules for human resource management are available through South Dakota State University.