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Dairy Tool Box Talks: A Comprehensive Worker Training in Dairy Farming

Published: January 13, 2017
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INTRODUCTION Today’s dairy farms are changing dynamically, with increasing herd size and more hired employees. On larger U.S. farms, there is a reliance on non-family immigrant or contract laborers. Latinos have surpassed African-Americans as the nation’s largest minority group, constituting 17% of the U.S. total population in 2014 (1). This is reflected within the dairy industry,...
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Maristela Rovai
Heidi Carroll
South Dakota State University
South Dakota State University
Tracey Erickson
South Dakota State University
South Dakota State University
Alvaro Garcia
South Dakota State University
South Dakota State University
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George
9 de diciembre de 2019
As a young farmer in Uganda in Africa I would love to practically come and learn from a farmer in USA for a week or two to come and apply lessons at my farm.
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