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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
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Farm Management
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employee, management, handbook, interview, job description, evaluation, orientation

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