Either as a worker or as a manager you need to be aware of physical hazards, know how to assess risks and learn how to plan to minimize dangers so that your farm will be a safe place for workers, visitors and volunteers.
As farm businesses grow and your management team faces decisions with significant impact - for example, what type and how many employees to hire - it is important that you have a clear sense of the…
In this article in the Growing For Market magazine, Rebecca Kutzer-Rice of Moonshot Farm in NJ describes her experience developing a thriving migrant workforce in depth, including:
• How to connect with local refugee resettlement agencies
• An introduction to the H-2A migrant worker program
• Legal and transportation considerations
• Tips for overcoming language and cultural barriers
• How to create a welcoming farm environment that feels like home
In this short blog post, UVM Extension's Mary Peabody outlines an easy steps every farmer can take to make sure first responders can quickly get to your farm and help anyone who has been injured or…
The resources below offer a variety of communication and management tips and techniques and tools to help create a positive and productive farm work environment.Training Your Employees: Training your…
Maintaining physical distance is an important step in limiting the spread of COVID-19. But how does physical distancing work on a farm when new employees need training, coaching and oversight? This…
It is common to hear farmers talk about how quickly a pricey piece of equipment will “pay for itself” over time. The Equipment Cost Recovery Calculator helps turn these claims into careful estimations…
This 260-page publication provides a broad range of practical and easy-to-implement solutions for improving safety, health and working conditions in agriculture. It was produced by the International…
Ergonomics for Farm Workers - This guide from the CDC provides descriptions, diagrams and photographs illustrating ergonomic guidelines and practices that can people people safe, comfortable and…
This guide from the CDC provides tip sheets that show how to make or modify tools to the reduce the risk of back aches and other pain in the shoulders, arms and hands that common to people who engage…
While oriented to cow dairies, this publication from the Center for Agricultural Research, Education, and Disease and Injury Prevention provides a variety of tips and strategies to prevent back pain…
Yoga For Farmers Hand-Out This one-page hand out from the University of Maine Cooperative Extension and Maine Agribility provides images and instructions of stretches farmers and farm employees can…
The Pennsylvania State University Farm Safety Program and the Upper Midwest Agricultural Safety and Health Center (UMASH) have developed fact sheets on health insurance options for farm workers, as well as on laws and regulations affecting farm safety.
El Programa de Seguridad Agrícola de la Universidad Estatal de Pensilvania y el Centro para la Salud y Seguridad Agrícola del Alto Medio Oeste (UMASH) ofrecen hojas informativas para trabajadores agrícolas sobre las opciones de seguro de salud, así como también sobre leyes y reglamentaciones que afectan la seguridad agrícola.
This article in The Conversation, discusses how household expenses like access to health care and child care affects farm development.
The authors are: Shoshanah Inwood, Assistant Professor of…
Produced by University of New Hampshire Cooperative Extension and University of Vermont Extension, the Farm Labor Video Series is six short (about 5 minutes) video lessons on key aspects of managing…
This 36-page booklet explains what machinery management is, why it is important, and the basics of selecting, maintaining, operating and replacing farm equipment and machinery.
In this August 2022 Growing for Market Magazine article, farmer Katie Kulla talks about preparation farmers can make before the baby comes for a smooth addition of a new member of the family farm and…
In this episode of Growing for Market Podcast listen to Katie Kulla talk about the preparations she made on farm such as "our first employees and built in as much flexibility as we could into our…
