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Farmers’ Guide to Shared Labor Arrangements

This guide is designed to help farmers who are interested in coordinating farm labor across farms determine what approach or model might be best for you. This is a pdf version of the online resource of the same name, provided for easy distribution to your agricultural community. The pdf uses the old title, “Coordinating Farm Labor Across Farms: A Toolbox for Diversified Farmers and Farmworkers,” but the content is the same.

Sustainable farmers often seek more flexible options for meeting their diverse and fluctuating farm labor needs. Farm workers also struggle to piece together stable and rewarding employment opportunities. This guide explores one potential solution: coordinating farm labor across farms. Is such a solution feasible for your community? This guide explores such feasibility of this model through operations, ownership, business structure and financial viability. This resource was created in partnership with the University of Wisconsin Center for Cooperatives.