Experience Team members attend three meetings over Zoom, each of which is 90-minutes long. Meetings are facilitated by our staff, who focus on creating a welcoming, respectful, and interactive environment. During meetings, team members share their questions and concerns about legal/regulatory issues, get solutions to common legal and regulatory questions, and reflect on the impact of those answers on their business, peer community, and customer base.

Team members will also be assigned about one hour of homework ahead of each meeting by reading educational material and reflecting on individual needs and concerns. In total, team members are asked to contribute 8 hours of their time to the program.

Thursdays from 11 AM – 12:30 PM ET on the following dates:

• February 13, 2025

• February 20, 2025

• February 27, 2025

We will provide each participant who successfully completes the program with an honorarium of $600 on or after the final meeting on February 27, 2025. To receive the honorarium, Farm Employee Benefits Experience Team members will provide their payment information in our secure, online payment management system, Gusto. A social security number, TEIN, or EIN is required to receive payment so we can fulfill our tax obligations. Payment can be made via direct deposit or via paper check through the postal mail. Participants may forgo the payment if they wish.

We are looking for folks fitting the following criteria:

1. You supervise or manage farm or ranch employees, or you are in a decision-making role regarding farm and ranch employees.

2. You are willing to share your stories and questions about legal issues related to farm and ranch employee benefits that will be recorded and potentially incorporated into our educational material (anonymous or credited, your choice)

3. You are willing and able to join online group meetings using Zoom (including having the necessary hardware, software, and internet bandwidth), access to Google Drive, complete written responses in an online form, and communicate in English.

4. You have the ability to join all of the scheduled meetings: February 13, 2025, February 20, 2025, and February 27, 2025.

Whether you have been a farm or ranch manager or supervisor for many years or you have just begun, we are looking for a diversity of voices! Please consider joining us.

We anticipate receiving more applications than we have available spots. We apologize in advance if we are not able to accept all applicants!  In that event, we will extend invitations based on our priorities. We are prioritizing the following individuals for participation in no particular order, and we strive to create a diverse Experience Team representative of a wide variety of personal experiences.

• Farm and ranch managers and supervisors.

• Farm and ranch managers and supervisors based in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

• Black, Indigenous, and People of Color business owners