Dairy farming is not a 40-hour per week job, but with labor laws becoming more restrictive, employers may have to treat it as such. Dairy personnel must keep cows healthy, but the economics of overtime or additional workers will likely have dairy owners between a rock and a hard place.
Source: Hoard’s Dairyman, February 4, 2021. Link.
INSIGHTS: For dairy veterinarians and dairy representatives helping individual farms build on efficiencies, prevention programs and assertive herd health management can reduce costs and labor. Acting sooner than later to educate, inform and help will likely keep a good customer viable for the future.