MSU Extension Dairy

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

• Migrant Services through the Michigan Department of Human 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