Good decision-making around the type and amount of labor needed on a farm enhances the farm household’s quality of life and increases the likelihood farmers will successfully meet their financial goals. This site provides tools and strategies to help small and medium-sized fruit and vegetable farms make informed labor decisions.
Our hypothesis—backed by extensive data we’ve gathered during the last four years—is that greater diversity in crops, livestock, and people in the Corn Belt farming community will improve risk management options, resilience, and profitability.
Learning how to effectively recruit, hire, train and retain workers is a critical farm management skill. The right employees doing the right tasks can take your farm to the next level of profitability. This site contains tips, tools and techniques to get you on the right track.
This decade-long, multi-institution project led by the
University of Vermont has develop resources to help farmers improve farm labor management know-how that are housed on the Farm Labor Dashboard website. John Hendrickson has created decision support tools to (1) help growers estimate the full cost of hired labor and (2) a partial budgeting tool that evaluates the financial impact of purchasing “labor saving” equipment.