Human Resources
Mooney calls for immigration reform, points to lack of viable visa program for the dairy industry.
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.
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.
A South Carolina prison program helps inmates develop marketable skills by working with its dairy herd.
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.
A farmworkers’ rights group is calling on federal safety inspectors not to delay a program of surprise inspections of New York dairy farms.
Look for those “grey areas” that may be costing you money and workers.
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.
Dairy Today’s Dollars and Sense contributors discuss staff training and development on their dairy farms.
Dairy Today’s Dollars and Sense contributors discuss staff training and development on their dairy farms.
Dairy Today’s Dollars and Sense contributors discuss staff training and development on their dairy farms.
Dairy Today’s Dollars and Sense contributors discuss staff training and development on their dairy farms.
How one California dairy transformed its workforce, its SCC levels and its bottom line.
Financing is available to qualified organizations in six states to develop housing for domestic farm laborers.
New Zealand dairy will be milking 1,500 cows with 24 robots by year end.
Western United Dairymen joins the Agriculture Workforce Coalition in urging legislators to fix agriculture’s workforce problems before mandating e-Verify.
At the Turner County Dairy west of Sioux Falls, S.D., finding employees to milk 1,600 cows three times a day isn’t a problem. But dairy owners and industry advocates say if something doesn’t change with the country’s immigration policy and visa programs, America’s food production system will be in trouble.
Animals learn to be handled if they’re handled calmly.
Urge your employees to take these precautions to avoid injuries.
Wearing the proper attire on the dairy is important to farm safety.
Dairy producers in Germany are impressed with the results they’ve seen changing to automatic milking in a rotary.
