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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
Tracey Erickson
South Dakota State University
Alvaro Garcia
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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