Resources

This presentation contains negotiation skills that are a useful part of every farm business manager's essential toolkit. The webinar explores what negotiation really is (and what it is not), as well as how to prepare for and execute a successful negotiation. A worksheet is attached to help prepare notes for a successful negotiation.

This presentation from the Agricultural Justice Project explores concepts of justice and fairness in the farm workplace.

In this episode of the Growing for Market podcast a mother/daughter team describe their experience growing fifteen acres of certified organic flowers on their California farm. They discuss topics such as strategies for keeping a farm crew year-round, educating customers on the importance of organic flowers, farm event planning, and the importance of playing hard when you’re working hard.

Esta guía incluye 11 prácticas de autocuidado seleccionadas cuidadosamente que pueden ayudarle a hacer una pausa, reflexionar y recargar energías. Cada práctica está diseñada para apoyar su bienestar emocional y mental, y para ayudarle a estar presente de forma plena, para usted y para quienes le rodean.

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.

This guide covers the basics of farm law, providing resources and action steps to build long-term legal resilience.
(Developed by Farm Commons)

This video presentation takes you on a tour of the Farm Labor Dashboard’s four interactive tools and its growing resource library of labor management tools, information and resources.

Cases of Avian Influenza in dairy cattle have been identified in eight states in 26 herds as of May 10, 2024. For up-to-date information on biosecurity and livestock protection measures, and for livestock testing and treatment livestock recommendations, visit the USDA web page on Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Detections in Livestock.

The Farm Commons guide Getting Work Done on Vermont Farms: Employment Law Basics in Classification and Payroll Issues includes a checklist and explanation of legal issues Vermont farmers should attend to at the time of hiring.

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.

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 intended to help managers reflect on the impact of their communication style and how it impacts the farm team.

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.

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.

Seeds Farm is owned and managed by Rebecca Rudebusch and has been growing organic produce in Northfield, Minnesota since 2010. Seeds Farm grows over 25 different crops for wholesale accounts in MN and surrounding areas with a team of 5 season employees.

Bethanee Wright is owner and organic vegetable farmer at Winterfell Acres. Bethanee runs her organic farm, facilitates healing work for others and enjoys rural life with her husband, two daughters, three big white fluffy dogs and one tiny farm cat.

Deirdre Birmingham runs an organic cider apple orchard in Southwest Wisconsin. The apples are processed on-farm to make award-winning hard ciders and apple brandy.

Kate Donald has been farming for 20+ years, having worked on farms in California and Massachusetts before returning to here home state of New Hampshire. She and her husband Jeff co-own Stout Oak Farm, a Certified Organic vegetable farm in Brentwood, NH, where she works with a team of twelve employees to grow vegetables, microgreens, seedlings, and cut flowers. Kate also co-owns the local food hub Three River Farmers Alliance.

Slides providing highlights and lessons learned from a vegetable financials benchmark project conducted by CISA under a Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) project and PASA's Diversified Vegetable Financial Benchmark Study.

The interview is one of the most important steps in the hiring process. It provides an opportunity to get to know applicants before you make a commitment to invest in a new team member.
These sample questionnaires and informational resources from UVM Extension, UNH Extention, Iowa State University Extension & Outreach can help you navigate the interview process.

This journal article identifies and analyzes social, economic and cognitive pathways through which childcare impacts farm decisions, operations, labor, and success. The authors draw on interviews and focus group data with farmers in the Northeast US to describe how farmer-parents access and negotiate child care, and suggest that childcare arrangements are an under recognized challenge through which farm household dynamics directly influence agricultural production.