Resources

Here you'll find links to articles, fact sheets and other resources related to being a farm employer.

  • Farming Into the Future by Centering Farmworkers

    Published in 2023, this 69-page guide provides insights into what employees on diversified vegetable farms value in a workplace and practical action-oriented tips to attracting employees and to building positive, long-term relationships with those individuals. Authors: Sarah Janes Ugoretz, Anita Adalja, and Rue Policastro.

    La agricultura hacia el futuro centrando a les trabajadores agricolas
    Publicada en 2023, esta guía de 69 páginas brinda información sobre lo que los empleados de granjas de hortalizas diversificadas valoran en un lugar de trabajo y consejos prácticos orientados a la acción para atraer empleados y construir relaciones positivas a largo plazo con esas personas.
  • Fast Feedback Loop - Tailgate Training

    This exercise can help build more productive and stronger farm work teams. It can help improve how employees work together and their level of compassion for each other. Finally, it can help you become…

  • Fast Feedback Loop to Improve Performance

    This 3-minute video shares a quick activity that can help build more productive and stronger farm work teams. The exercise can help improve how employees work together, their level of compassion for…

  • Guide to Sharing Farm Equipment

    This 2018 farmer-focused guide provides practical information on a range of equipment sharing models, and then walks readers through the steps of designing your designing your own equipment sharing program.
  • Guiding Farmers to Legal Resilience

    This guide, developed by Farm Commons, covers the basics of farm law and provides additional resources and action steps to assist educators and service providers working to build long-term legal…

  • Health Savings Accounts (HSAs)

    Health Savings Accounts allow you to pay for unreimbursed medical expenses such as deductibles, co-payments, and services not covered by insurance—if you have a high-deductible health plan. This fact…

  • Hojas informativas para trabajadores agrícolas sobre las opciones de seguro médico y las leyes que afectan la seguridad agrícola

    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.

    The Pennsylvania State University Farm Safety Program and the Upper Midwest Center for Farm Health and Safety (UMASH) have developed fact sheets on health insurance options for farmworkers, as well as on laws and regulations affecting farm safety.
  • Host Farmer and Mentor Self-Assessment

    Created by Rouge Farm Corp, this Mentor Self-Assessment allows for managers, farm owners, and staff to evaluate communication and leadership skills necessary for a healthy farm team. This tool is…

  • Hot Potato Resource Library: Heat Safety Where You Work

    For farmers laboring in hot conditions, keeping yourselves and others safe is both a priority and a growing challenge. In this companion resource library to the video Hot Potato: Heat Safety Where You Work, farmers and ag service providers from across the country share their tips, practices (SOPs), and policies related to extreme heat.
  • Hot Potato: Heat Safety Where You Work (video)

    For farmers laboring in hot conditions, keeping yourselves and others safe is both a priority and a growing challenge. In the video Hot Potato: Heat Safety Where You Work and its companion resource library, farmers and ag service providers from across the country share their tips, practices, and policies related to extreme heat.