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Keep tabs on your employees, machinery and records with help from a location-based application called foursquare.
Four basic business management principles can help drive your farm’s growth.
This conventional grain producer goes organic for better returns.
Tips for weathering the economic downturn. Ag lending: visit banker early, communicate often, keep good records, build cash, negotiate rates. Cash rent renegotiation may be in order. Land price rise may be slowing; what the rent-to-value ratio means. What it costs to hire a college grad. Natural gas price down; fertilizer is a good investment.
As Arizona’s controversial immigration law is set to go into affect tomorrow.
Wages paid to dairy farm workers remain essentially unchanged from three years ago En Espanol
Learn how to fairly compensate for farming labor, when family ties are concerned.
The recent Health Care Reform law has created a new tax credit for certain employers who pay for their employee’s health care premiums.
Hiring great employees who make farming more efficient and enjoyable is one of the most important jobs you can do as a manager.
Employee has a heart attack on your farm: Do you need to report it?
With summer here, you can save family income and payroll taxes by hiring family members.
Here is some additional perspective on the new health-care measure.
Corn stalks that don’t completely decompose during the winter interfere with spring planting but can a new cellulosic ethanol plant turn those tough cornstalks into cash?
No matter how much management, labor and fertilizer you apply, and regardless of the quality of seed you plant, it’s the soil that underpins how much food and fiber you produce.
Reducing complexity is a simple, yet profound way to reduce stress and increase profits on your farming operation.
Farmers need to document standard operating procedures.
Here are some helpful resources and an outline for the content of an employee handbook.
Every day more farmers realize the value of an employee handbook.
If finding good employees is a challenge for your farming enterprise, consider what one agribusiness recruiter says is a wave of the future: freelance farmers.
Working with attorneys and other labor professionals can help agricultural employers avoid fines and heightened liability, experts say.
Thursday September 23, 2010WASHINGTON -- We ve always played with our food -- even before we knew about genes or how to change them.For thousands of years, humans have practiced selective breeding -- pairing the beefiest bull with the healthiest heifers to start a new herd. That concept was refined to develop plant hybridization and artificial insemination. Today we ve got tastier corn on sturdier stalks, bigger turkeys and meatier cattle.Now comes an Atlantic salmon that is genetically engineered to grow twice as fast as a regular salmon. If U.S. regulators approve it, the fish would be the first such scientifically altered animal to reach the dinner plate.Scientists have already determined that it s safe to eat. They are weighing other factors, including environmental risks, after two days of intense hearings.
The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) Citizens’ Board voted unanimously yesterday to pull the permit of Excel Dairy, Thief River Falls, Minn.
Nominations must be postmarked by July 11, 2014 for the $10,000 environmental stewardship award.
Prairieland Dairy has made composting not only sustainable, but a community effort.
See how New Zealand dairy producers are adopting sustainable practices.
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