Farm employee training has changed

Farm employee training has changed

L-R: Douglas Grotegut, workshop facilitator Molly Fenske from KCoe Isom, and Daniel Rice at Dairy Strong 2019.

With low unemployment and the challenge of keeping skilled workers on the farm, farmers say they are changing how they manage people. 

Dairy farmer Daniel Rice is with Prairieland Dairy in Firth, Nebraska where 25 people manage 15-hundred cows and a compost-to-fertilizer operation.  He tells Brownfield it’s the ongoing training that has changed. “What we do is once a month, we have an employee meeting and then everybody gets assigned a video or training that they have to go through that month.

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