Labor Ready Farmer Videos

 

 

Wages, salaries, and contract labor expenses represent more than 40 percent of the cost of production in labor intensive crops like fruits, vegetables, and nursery products. Cornell Cooperative Extension has hosted a series of events across New York related to hiring, training, retaining, and working with employees within a farm business. One of which was a webinar series “The 20 Minute Manager.” The series has now been condensed into 4 minute videos which can be found below.

 

The Labor Ready Farmer videos are available from the Cornell Small Farms Program. The Cornell Small Farm Program;s Labor Ready Farmer Project’s long-term goal is to ensure that new farmers and advancing employees in our region can access high-quality information, supportive networks and proven tactics essential to effective management of labor.  These efforts will support new farmers scaling up and Latino agricultural employees to move up the ladder of management on existing farms.  For new farmers (operating less than 10 years), effective management of labor is core to scaling up produce businesses. By investing in the skills of valuable employees, we aim to create pathways for advancement and long term retention of these individuals in the NY fruit and vegetable industry.  The curriculum developed by the project will feature online materials and videos, Spanish plain language guides and visual resources, cell-phone based English classes, regional face to face training programs (ENY and WNY) and new HR consultant teams that will coach 25 selected participants.