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Planning for success: Team dynamics and herd management

Prioritize both animal and human welfare to retain great teammates and maintain a high-quality, safe and efficient production facility.

October 24, 2023

Luke Miller

As we know, good welfare is important for cows. However, we also want to ensure we have good welfare practices in place with our two-legged teammates. Their interactions with our cows may also increase their health and well-being.

Lack of workforce development puts farms at a competitive disadvantage

Coaching and understanding employees' personal growth interests are two ways to start improving workforce development on your farm.

July 17, 2023

Bob Milligan

“The only thing worse than training your employees and having them leave is not training them and having them stay.” Since this quote is from Henry Ford, it is approximately a century old. If this was true for his assembly line workers, it certainly is even more true today.

First impressions matter: Take steps to improve the employee onboarding experience on your dairy

Five areas to cover when onboarding a new employee include the initial welcome, general information and procedures, an overview of work hours and pay, a review of the employee’s job description and an emphasis on employee safety and well-being.

June 9, 2023

Jim Versweyveld

“Onboarding" refers to the process in which new hires are integrated into the organization.

How to deal with unmet expectations

A discussion of why unmet expectations must be addressed and when to provide redirection or negative feedback.

March 20, 2023

Bob Milligan

Unmet expectations for performance and behavior are likely the greatest stressor for most, if not all, supervisors. A failure to meet animal or crop goals, arriving late for work and skipping an assigned task are all examples of unmet expectations.

What are you doing to find and empower the L6 on your farm?

The L6 – or Level 6 – is the person six levels down from the top who knows what you badly need to know. How could the information this person or people are collecting be beneficial to your business?

August 22, 2022

Amy Throndsen

In the “Six Levels Down” episode of the Against the Rules podcast, host Michael Lewis followed healthcare provider Athenahealth’s journey to fixing one of their biggest problems – getting insurance companies to pay their bills – and in the process, discovered the power of the L6.

Rising HR professionalism

December 3, 2020

Julie Berry and Richard E. Stup

Farm labor used to be about hiring the next person to help when the business was short-handed, but that approach doesn’t work now, and it also won’t in the future, as hiring and retaining labor becomes increasingly competitive.

What might best HR practices really look like on a dairy?

August 22, 2014

Johanna Johnson and Gustavo Lascano

During several in-depth interviews with dairy owners and managers regarding personnel management, we often heard about challenges and the difficulties associated with managing people. However, in most cases, mixed in with those challenges were bits of human resource (HR) “gold.” The purpose of this article is to highlight a few of those best practices and provide some insight into how you might incorporate something similar on your dairy.

Does my dairy really need an HR manager?

July 18, 2014

Johanna Johnson and Gustavo Lascano

The question of whether or not human resource (HR) management is needed is not unique to dairies; in fact, it’s not unique to any industry. It is a question which is relevant for any small business anywhere, and the answer is both yes and no. In small businesses with 10 or fewer employees, it’s unlikely you could keep an HR person busy full-time. However, regardless of how many employees you have, incorporating some HR management strategies proactively can really pay off over time.

Addressing the ‘people puzzle’ on dairy farms

December 10, 2013

Johanna Johnson and Gustavo Lascano

Recent trends across the U.S. suggest that while the number of dairies has been decreasing steadily, those remaining are increasing in size. Although this presents new challenges in relation to herd management, it also means new challenges in regards to human-resource management.

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Planning for success: Team dynamics and herd management

Lack of workforce development puts farms at a competitive disadvantage

First impressions matter: Take steps to improve the employee onboarding experience on your dairy

How to deal with unmet expectations

What are you doing to find and empower the L6 on your farm?

Rising HR professionalism

What might best HR practices really look like on a dairy?

Does my dairy really need an HR manager?

Addressing the ‘people puzzle’ on dairy farms

Replacement cow prices climbed to a record-breaking high in October

3 ways you can practice effective hay management for a healthier and happier herd

Managing costs on a smaller cattle operation

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