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  • May 31, 2012
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    Know Your People; Know Yourself

    Turnover is expensive and good help is harder and harder to find. While a paycheck and other financial incentives will keep good employees, there are non-financial incentives that may be more important. If the “noise” that surrounds your communication tells employees you don’t care about them, they may update their resumes....More
  • May 11, 2012
    Article

    Former Starbucks CEO Shares Dance Steps For Success

    Jim Donald built a reputation early on as a turnaround specialist of failing companies. His senior management experience includes such firms as Starbucks, Pathmark Stores, WalMart and Albertsons. During the recent 4C Summit in Seattle, Donald passed on to attendees his six dance steps for leaders to succeed in business....More
  • May 9, 2012
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    Effective Employee Management Begins With Understanding Personality Styles

    Managing a feedyard is easy. Managing the employees is the hard part. An Extension feedyard specialist says understanding who you are and your personality type, understanding who your employees are and their personality types, and knowing how to wade the swamp between various personality traits can help in not conveying unintended messages....More
  • Apr. 24, 2012
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    Employee Survey Polls Cowboys & Ranch Managers 1

    Cowboys are people too. While you’re trying to wrap your mind around that concept, consider this: “Com-munication is the key word,” says Jen Livsey of Corpus Christi, TX. “Employees like to know what they are (supposed to be) doing, how well they are doing at it, and why they are doing it.”...More
  • Apr. 13, 2012
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    The Big 5 Management Areas 5

    The five big management areas of beef production are nutrition, animal health, reproduction, genetics and marketing. Of course, cost optimization, grazing management, labor, strategic planning, understanding industry trends and issues, and helping to build a more accurate vision of the future, are important as well. But if you’re not concentrating and improving on the first five, your longevity in the business is at risk....More
  • Apr. 12, 2012
    Article

    Boundaries And The Family Business

    A well-managed ranch can, in many respects, be determined by looking at its fences. Tight wires and straight fenceposts show that the boundaries between pastures are firm, and management systems well thought out. But in the business of running the family ranch, boundaries can lead to conflict and ultimately to failure....More
  • Feb. 16, 2012
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    How Do You View Mistakes On Your Operation? 2

    There are two different kinds of mistakes; some are preventable and some aren’t. Take calving season, for instance; a calf dies because it was born on frozen ground and simply couldn’t maintain its body temperature at that fragile time of life. If bedded, out of the wind, or warmed up, that calf would have been perfectly fine....More
  • Dec. 1, 2011
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    Employee Improvement Starts At The Top

    “Continuous improvement of the key resources” is one of my five essentials for successful ranch management. While drought, fire and our own mistakes may temporarily set us back at times, continuous improvement of land, livestock and people should always be our goal....More
  • Jul. 1, 2011
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    Feedyard Safety From Top To Bottom

    A safety culture in a feedyard must be established at the top. But it’s more successful in reducing accidents if it’s built from the bottom. At least that’s how it works at Nelson Farms/Valley Feeds feedyard at Long Island, KS....More
  • May 13, 2011
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    Feedyard Personnel Management An Ongoing Challenge

    Personnel management in today’s feedyard is a different ballgame than it was years ago. “It started out as ‘my way or the highway. If you don’t want to work here, I’ve got somebody who will fill your shoes in the morning,’” says Bill Mies, Texas A&M University emeritus professor in feedyard management...More
  • Feb. 1, 2011
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    U.S. Feedlot Salaries Are On The Rise

    Salaries and wages for Nebraska feedyard employees rose considerably between 2004 and 2010, according to surveys by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln...More
  • Jan. 13, 2011
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    Employees Need Preventive Maintenance, Too

    Ag producers know that a small investment of time can save thousands of dollars and countless hours by preventing mechanical malfunctions. And what’s true for machinery is also true for people...More
  • Jul. 1, 2010
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    Auditing Animal Welfare At The Ranch

    Temple Grandin, the renowned livestock behaviorist, began gathering benchmark data in 1996 for what would become the pioneering animal welfare audit developed for the American Meat Institute (AMI). At the time, employees at only 30% of the packing plants she audited could stun 95% of the cattle on the first try. Nearly all meet or exceed that level today....More
  • Mar. 1, 2010
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    What Ranch Employees Want In a Job

    Can you think of a business or sports team that is succeeding while its people are failing? That's a question Bob Milligan, Cornell University emeritus professor, often poses to business owners to stimulate thinking about the importance of effectively managing employees...More
  • Feb. 1, 2010
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    Hiring Headaches

    Finding good employees often ranks as one of the most challenging tasks for ranch owners and managers, but with some human resource management know-how,...More
  • Nov. 1, 2009
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    10 Tips To Become A Better Boss

    It's pretty hard, says Bernie Erven, to find someone who says, I've got good employees, but they've got a lousy boss. More often, says the Ohio State...More
  • Mar. 1, 2009
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    Keeping It Legal

    Federal agents recently conducted the largest raid on illegal workers in national history, arresting 600 undocumented immigrants at a Laurel, MS, business....More
  • Aug. 29, 2008
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    Finding And Keeping Good Employees

    The cost of replacing an employee averages about 150% of his salary, something few businesses can afford. “We live in a time when business owners can no longer wait...More
  • Apr. 1, 2008
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    An Ounce Of Prevention

    The reverberations of the Hallmark/Westland fiasco are still rippling through the industry. Amidst the fallout, cattlemen are asking themselves how they...More
  • Apr. 1, 2007
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    Managing Hispanic Employees

    La familia. The family. Of the many things that are important in successfully managing a Hispanic workforce, recognizing the strong role that family plays...More
  • Dec. 9, 2006
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    Getting And Keeping Employees

    "It's a challenge for rural employers to find employees with the skill sets they need," says Sarah Fogleman, Kansas State University Extension economist and a nationally recognized expert in agriculture human resources. On the other hand, she says, "The ......More
  • Aug. 1, 2005
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    Keeping Good Hands At Home

    There's an old saying, You can tell a cowboy, but you can't tell him much. But, to keep good cowboys or other feedyard or ranch employees, it takes good...More
  • Feb. 1, 2005
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    Labor Costs Up 5%/Year

    Feedyard labor costs the past five years have increased about 5%/year across the board in Nebraska. And, the level and cost of benefits paid to employees...More
  • May 1, 1998
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    Personality Testing: Get A Head Start

    Most managers put a lot of effort into placing new employees in the right slot, but it's a hit-and-miss affair at best. It takes time - weeks, even months...More
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