Keeping Good Employees Producers complain that it's hard to find any employees, let alone good ones. The fact is that the market for labor is fantastic. Unemployment is at a 30 year low.
Good workers can have their pick of jobs.
Some industries are in such desperate need of employees that they will train people with no experience for relatively skilled jobs. This is the labor market in which farmers must compete for help. Nothing is going to make it easy to find workers in this environment, but there are things that farmers can do to increase their chance of finding and keeping workers. Change the image of work on your farm. Most people picture farm work as dirty, hard, and low paying, and sometimes this image is accurate.