Brockett's Ag Advice
Take a Vacation!
To help a fanner make good
management decisions, he or she
must get away from the business
from time to time. This vacation
from the farm helps in several
ways. First, it makes the manager
back off from the trees so that
person can see the woods. In other
words, a farmer who spends all of
the time doing farm work often
fails to see the overall situation or
problem.
Second, it gives the farmer time
to spend with the family in a dif
ferent type of atmosphere than just
work.
Third, it acts as a refresher in typical farmer, he did not want to
that for at least a few hours the' lose that, so left on schedule. When
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farmer is not thinking about
business. I remember a number of
years ago when I was trying to
convince a good friend to go on a
trip. His response was “I’ve never
missed a milking and am con
cerned as to the problems that
would come up if I left.” Finally he
was convinced that a short trip,
looking at other dairy farms,
would be advantageous. He left
with a great deal of trepidation.
I’m sure he had many moments
when he nearly backed out. For
tunately he had pre-paid his and
his wife’s fees for the tour. Being a
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he got home, he was both relieved
and somewhat disappointed that
everything was in good shape with
no lost cows, no damages, and no
loss of income. Since then he has
made annual use of vacations as a
renewal of his management and a
rejuvenation of his physical self.
What Type of Vacation?
Vacations can be anything from
a one-day trip to a park or picnic
area to an extended stay at the
shore or in the mountains to a trip
to Hawaii or Florida. When most of
our kids were home, we had a
considerable amount of
strawberries. During strawberry
season we worked from 6 a.m. until
11 p.m. six days of the week. On
Sunday chores, went to
church, then often went to Reed’s
Gap or Greenwood recreational
areas to swim, picnic, and play
ball. At the end of strawberry
season and before we got tied up in
sweet corn, cantalopes, and other
projects we went out to dinner. It
was a big event. We usually had to
make reservations ahead, because
most restaurants in this area were
not geared to take on casual
parties the size of ours. We and the
kids appreciated the break in what
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was always a rather hectic time of
the year.
Sometimes a vacation is no more
than being able to sleep in on a
Sunday. Usually this does not work
very well because it is too easy to
see something that absolutely
needs to be done. That becomes the
end of any relaxation or change of
pace. If short times are all that are
available, it would be better to take
a few hour trips away from home.
Usually that short time away from
the business will help you get a
better grip on the management
routine when you return.
Labor Management
While you are considering your
own vacation, what about volun
tarily offering your hired man or
woman a few extra days or a part
of a day off. It would be like an
extra bonus and many times would
be appreciated more than a
monetary bonus.
Perhaps you could say “You can
have two days off once we get the
second cutting of hay done or the
oats combined.” This would give
the hired person something to
anticipate and would give them
time to plan ahead. Or you could
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offer to extend their regular
weekend or vacation time by a day
or two. This would be especially
helpful if you were planning to
really push things for a period of
time so the hired help would have a
lot of extra hours of work involved.
Never take the hired help for
granted. . Nothing is more
discouraging for a person than to
do a good job and then receive
nothing except fault for not doing
more or something different.
Most farmers make a mistake
when they hire help, because they
do not spell out the work load and
expectations they have for hired
help development. Most jobs have
what is called a job description.
Such a document would often save
a lot of boss-hired help conflicts.
This document could have
bonuses, incentives and
requirements for pay raises in
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