News of a new federal overtime tax deduction has created confusion across the agricultural sector. While the deduction has been promoted as a form of relief related to overtime pay, it does not provide a meaningful benefit to employers – and it does not apply to agricultural employees at all under current federal law. 

We can't ignore that training dairy farm workers effectively presents dairy farms with several challenges. One promising solution may be the use of virtual reality (VR) technologies.

A robust insurance package serves a critical role for your business. Your livelihood depends on factors that happen every day on the farm that are unpredictable or outside your control, and it’s important to be protected when those things happen.

Here are four ways your farm can become great at developing and promoting your people. This development is much more than sending employees to educational meetings.

When leaders adjust how they lead – not just how much – performance almost always improves. Conversations get easier, expectations feel clearer, and employees start taking more responsibility on their own. Not because they’re being pushed harder. Because they’re being led in a way that fits where they actually are.

Given the gaps in labor protections for dairy farmworkers, many modern dairy farmers actively seek to accommodate the needs of their workers to ensure worker satisfaction, which is directly associated with animal health and well-being, and therefore, farm profitability.