Employee Management Series
Articles written by Melissa O'Rourke, ISU Extension and Outreach Farm Management Specialist
- Evaluation and selection of job candidates
- The job interview, and what questions can I ask?
- Do we need an employee handbook?
- Put job descriptions to work on your farm
- Assembly of dairy farm job descriptions
- Evaluation and selection of job candidates
- Getting the new employee off to a good start on day one
- Employee eligibility verification - The basics of Form I-9 compliance
- New employee orientation
- Dairy Farm Employee Management: Protecting Your Workers During the Hot Days of Summer
Employee Management Resources
- Job descriptions: The building block of organizations (pdf)
- Farm labor wages (USDA)
- Farm employee handbook (pdf)
- Labor and employees (MN)
- Farm employment rules and regulations (USDA)
- Examples of job descriptions for major positions on dairy farms (pdf)
- Developing effective standard operating procedures (pdf)
- Standard operating procedures: A writing guide (pdf)
- Hiring youth on the farm: The status of child labor regulations in agriculture
- Top legal issues on the dairy farm - 2014
Farm Labor Webinar Series - "Eye on Employees"
- Farm Management Specialist, Melissa O’Rourke speaks on “Starting the Interview Conversation”
- Dairy Field Specialist, Larry Tranel speaks on “Labor or Robots, It’s Not An Either Or Question”
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