It can be stressful to think about the possibility of being accused of discrimination in your farm work environment, but you can go a long way toward reducing that risk simply by being aware of the situations that create an opportunity for discrimination and the types of personal characteristics that are legally protected against discrimination. You can take a step further toward legal resilience by creating standardized policies and procedures to help guide employment decisions in your farm business. Overall, though, the most important step you can take toward legal resilience may be making the effort to document your reasons for different employment decisions, from hiring, to job assignments, to letting employees go. Your ability to show that you’ve made decisions for legitimate business reasons, rather than discriminatory motivations, can help you and your farm business demonstrate the integrity of your employment practices. All the same, even though your good employment practices can help you avoid discrimination claims and respond to a claim if you need to, for the best chance of protecting yourself, seek the advice of an attorney right away if a claim has been filed against you.