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Episode 29: Innovative Farm Labor Models

In this episode, we discuss labor challenges farmers face and an exciting new research project developing innovative hiring models to meet farmers' needs.

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In this episode, Rich Lavigne, our Staff Attorney for Special Projects, shares innovative hiring tools farmers can utilize to meet their labor challenges — hint: these tools are business structures! Tune into our conversation about the Innovative Labor Models project in collaboration with New Entry Sustainable Farming Project, out of Tufts University’s Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, to hear about the potential of collaborative hiring models, how they can address labor challenges farmers face AND align with their core values, as well as so much more.

 

Intro Music: “Easy Lemon” from Royalty Free by Kevin MacLeod. Released: 2012.

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This five-week workshop empowers ag service providers in guiding
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Guiding Resilience: A Legal Workshop for Ag Service Providers, Fall 2025

This five-week workshop empowers ag service providers in guiding
farmers and ranchers towards legal resiliency.
Join us in learning the 10 best practices of farm legal risk management.

Live sessions meet at 12 pm CDT on 9/16, 9/23, 9/30, 10/7, and  10/14