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The 2010 Census – Helping Your Community by Helping Latinos Be Counted …

Census 2010 The 2010 Census – Helping Your Community by Helping Latinos Be Counted …

I just received a letter from Robert Groves, Director for the U.S. Census Bureau.

Michele Payn-Knoper - Farming Your Online Community: Social Networks and Beyond


Farming Your Online Community: Social Networks and Beyond - Michele Payn-Knoper, Cause Matters Corp., from the Minnesota Pork Congress, January 20-21, 2010, Minneapolis, MN, USA.

Dr. Sarah Probst Miller - Effective Employee Training to Build Barn Culture


Effective Employee Training to Build Barn Culture - Dr. Sarah Probst Miller, Carthage Veterinary Service, from the Iowa Pork Congress, January 27-28, 2010, Des Moines, IA, USA.

Dr. Yuzhi Li - Building Efficient Alternative Production Systems


Building Efficient Alternative Production Systems - Dr. Yuzhi Li, University of Minnesota, from the Iowa Pork Congress, January 27-28, 2010, Des Moines, IA, USA.

Michele Payn-Knoper - Twittering Techniques for Ag Tweeps


Twittering Techniques for Ag Tweeps - Michele Payn-Knoper, Cause Matters Corp., from the Minnesota Pork Congress, January 20-21, 2010, Minneapolis, MN, USA.

SwineCast 0500, Minnesota Pork Congress Agenda Overview with Trudy Wastweet

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SwineCast update for January 7, 2010, Antibiotics legislation potential and upcoming swine conferences

Two major state swine conferences coming up in the next couple of weeks and SwineCast is joining a premier list of program sponsors to bring you the presentations, conversations, and analysis. These important educational opportunities will be posted at SwineCast.com in the days following the Minnesota Pork Congress and the Iowa Pork Congress.

Be looking for us at these meetings and throughout the year as we continue to bring you conversations, photos and presentations from the gathering places for the U.S. Swine industry.

SwineCast 0496, What's Up At The Iowa Pork Congress

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SwineCast 0494, American Feed Industry Association Meeting Preview

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  • Joel Newman, AFIA's president and CEO provides an overview of the upcoming AFIA conference in Atlanta and highlights legislative and regulatory issues on his organization's front burner

Should You Require Your Latino Employees To Speak Only English At Work?


"We are in America, %@$@ it, they should speak English!!!"

This is what a farm manager told me sometime ago as he complained about his newly hired Latino employees speaking Spanish at work and him and other employees not being able to understand what they were saying…

"If they want to speak Spanish, he continued, they can do that at home, not here. When they are at work, they should speak English, English, English!!!"

He told me this in a very demanding tone. I guess he thought that if he were demanding enough the situation would change.

Easier said than done, I thought…

This manager worked for a company that had turned to the available Latino workforce as an option to fill the jobs it couldn’t fill with native U.S. workers. This, of course, brought with it a new set of challenges.
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