Farm Business - General
Leaders who effectively cultivate a culture of connection are more successful at building strong and loyal work teams.
Retaining a poor employee can cost your business more. More money, more time and more employees. Knowing when to “let go” is crucial to your team’s success.
Utilizing an effective management team can help you. As the owner or leader of your business, spend less time on the non-urgent and non-important tasks or duties that pop up every day.
These Tennessee dairy producers offer up six tips to help other aspiring on-farm cheese processors.
Failure is a part of life, but how we bounce back from it determines how successful we will become.
Annual performance reviews: they’re often dreaded, dull, and not very productive. However, there’s a positive alternative to the standard annual review. Hold a “stay meeting” instead.
Throughout the country, overtime laws continue to threaten the dairy labor force.
“In my heart, it honestly feels like they were trying to bully or scare people into just paying it.”
The board of California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) voted unanimously to implement a group of workplace protocols to protect employees from COVID-19.
Veterinarians are essential workers, and many still make farm calls.
We broke the mega trends down to five key categories. Here are the mega trends for digital livestock.
As a polar vortex tore through the Midwest and Northern Plains January 30, 2018, frigid temperatures were among the least of 25-year-old Tanner Overby’s mind.
Set clear expectations and accountability for fruitful family governance.
Oregon authorities are investigating the deaths and mutilation of five bulls on the Silvies Valley Ranch about 20 miles north of Burns, Ore.
Each $1 invested in the national beef checkoff returns $11.91 to producer profits, according to research conducted by Cornell University professor Harry M. Kaiser.
Today on Farm Journal Live, Alice in Dairyland and dairy market analysis from Mike North as we continue to celebrate Dairy Week.
Step up, overcommunicate and solve problems during a crisis.
It is hard for farmers to take electric vehicles (EVs) seriously, yet all major brands are gearing up for a switch to EVs over the next decade.
Ohio’s MVP Dairy takes an innovate approach to business.
Secretary of Ag Sonny Perdue ruffled some farmer feathers this week with a remark about the future of small dairies. John Phipps provides his take in John’s World.
A U.S. Farm Report viewer has a question about the wide spread in milk prices at the grocery store. John Phipps discusses why milk is a famous “loss-leader” at the retail level.
As the various factors in agriculture weighs on producers, conversations surrounding mental health and suicide awareness are becoming more common, as experts and others try to remove the stigma around mental health.
While it’s difficult to gauge the health of the farm economy, John Phipps says now is the time to sit down at the computer and enter yields and prices and costs to get a peek at a possible future.
The Minnesota Department of Agriculture recently rolled out a state program that aims to inject cash into the state’s struggling dairy industry.
The Newton County, Indiana Sheriff’s Office announced it has arrested one of three men charged following accusations of animal abuse at the nation’s largest dairy farm.
Chapter 12 bankruptcy filings aren’t on the rise, but one attorney said it’s because many farmers don’t quality for Chapter 12 today, and recently introduced legislation could change that.
An Idaho dairy has filed a lawsuit against its former bookkeeper, claiming she stole $700,000 over the seven years she served as the dairy’s chief financial officer.
