Labor Management
MSU Publications and Fact Sheets
- MSU Employee Handbook Template (hosted on MSUE FIRM team webpage)
- What could an employee handbook do for your farm? - Stan Moore, April 2014
- MSU Extension Bulletin E2966 Labor Laws and Michigan Agriculture also available at the MSU Extension Book Store *NEW Sept. 2012
- Agricultural Employer Checklist (hosted on MSUE FIRM team webpage)
- Growing dairies are healthy dairies in more ways than just financially - Stan Moore, Jan. 2012
- Michigan Dairy Employment Survey - MSU Product Center, 2013
Labor Forms and Reporting
- Current I-9 form from USCIS (Includes English, Spanish, and Instructions)
- Current US W-4
- Current Michigan W-4 (Mi Dept of Treasury) 2012
- Michigan New Hire Reporting
- E-Verify (U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services)
- Dairy Incentive Pay 2005 - Gregory Eucina Billikopf, Michael Overton, Jim Reynolds, John H. Kirk, Gerald Higginbotham, Steven Berry and Dale Moore, 2005
Youth Labor Rules
- Michigan Youth employment restrictions
- A compilation of Federal Rules including hours, and wages by the U.S. Department of Labor
Migrant Services
Employee Engagement
- Developing the leaders you need – Phil Durst, Feb. 2019
- Employee harassment undermines teamwork – Phil Durst, Paola Bacigalupo Sanguesa, Dec. 2018
- Goal-driven management – Phil Durst, June 2018
- But they’re family! – Stan Moore, June 2018
- Using core values with employees – Phil Durst, May 2018
- It can be more difficult to understand employees than cows – Phil Durst, May 2018
- Hey employees, happy New Annual! – Phil Durst, Jan. 2018
- Is employee training educating the uneducated? – Phil Durst, May 2017
- Hungry to learn? – Phil Durst, May 2017
- Employee recruitment: intentional and continuous – Phil Durst, Sept. 2016
- Parting ways with employees on your farm – Stan Moore, July 2016
- Anatomy of a successful farm employee meeting – Phil Durst, Feb. 2016
- Are you developing or just dictating to employees? – Phil Durst, Nov. 2015
- New employee orientation: A must for farms – Faith Cullens, Oct. 2015
- Recruiting labor for your farm – Faith Cullens, May 2015
- Own up to your role as an employee manager – Phil Durst, April 2015
- What would your employees say they like/dislike about your farm – Stan Moore, April 2015
- How are you using incentive programs on your farm?- Stan Moore, April 2014
- Just because you said it, doesn’t mean they got it! - Stan Moore, April 2014
- Get serious about hiring – Stan Moore, Aug. 2013
- Skin in the game - Phil Durst, Jan. 2012
- Interviewing employees on the way out - Phil Durst, Oct. 2011
- Building employee loyalty through involvement - Phil Durst, Jan. 2012
- Developing a winning labor force on your farm - Stan Moore and Phil Durst, July 2011
- How do your farm’s employees measure up - Faith Cullens, Feb. 2012
Links to other Human Resource Management in Agriculture Sites
- Penn State Dairy Alliance (Educational and Certificate programs; also information on HRM issues)
- Kansas State Agricultural Manager (Management and risk information site with HRM articles by Sarah Fogleman and others)
- Purdue Extension-HRM (Lectures by Bernie Ervin, part of the Strategic Business Planning for Commercial Producers training modules)
- University of California, Agricultural Labor Management (A Host of Ag HR Resources)
- Examples of Job Descriptions for Major Positions on Dairy Farms - Jeffrey Keown and Erin Marotz, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension
- Michigan Dairy Review: Having to Dismiss a Dairy Farm Employee - Vera Bitsch, April 2009
Farm Safety
- Don’t become another deadly statistic – Phil Durst, May 2018
- Safety awareness for your agricultural employees: Part 1 – Stan Moore and Deb Chester, April 2013
- Safety awareness for your agricultural employees: Part 2 – Stan Moore and Deb Chester, June 2013
- Safety awareness for your agricultural employees: Part 3 – Stan Moore and Deb Chester, June 2013