Tips for Hiring Help on Your Dairy Operation

By: Mark Moore

Good help is hard to find. That’s been a continual mantra of dairy herd managers looking to find employees to fill critical roles on the farm. In today’s job market, it has become even more challenging because of a variety of converging factors. Employers need to look more closely at how they find new employees and how they can best retain these workers.

“The labor shortage is a significant issue in the dairy industry,” says Jim Versweyveld, Extension farm management outreach specialist with the University of Wisconsin. While all dairies are impacted in some way, a limited pool of potential employees is particularly difficult for larger dairies.