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incorporated into our farm…
and that is very, very important,”
said Preston. “We are on this
journey with Rick and Preston
from start to finish, their success
is our success,” stated Dan
Hanson, Director of FarmTeam
with PIPESTONE. Rick agreed,
“Once you find that fit, it can be
amazing and a long-term work
and friend relationship.”
OUTCOMES
FarmTeam staff provide support at every turn to both independent pork producers and
new employees relocating to the midwest. (l-r) Preston Maurer, Jony Rueda Hernandez,
Rick Maurer, and Dan Hanson, Director of FarmTeam at PIPESTONE.
course and folded him into their
active community. FarmTeam
doesn’t just deliver a team
member to a farm, but rather
walks alongside family farmers
helping them identify needs,
then begins the process of
selecting, developing, and
backfilling the right team
member for the operation
to solve their labor shortage
challenge. “For us, willingness to
learn and the ability to learn are
key factors in the success of an
employee. With each FarmTeam
member we’ve had, we always
see a desire to learn, a desire
to be better, and a desire to be
Rick and Preston feel they are
unique in what they have to offer
Jony. “We are a very diversified
farm; so we’ve made his job
diversified. The hogs are his top
priority, but then he is able to
work with us in our shop, help
with tiling, harvest, and other
things; we try to expose him to
as much as we can.”
Preston added, “FarmTeam
has opened the door for us to
tackle tasks that were not easy
in the past because we were
always short-handed. It really
helps us specialize and be a
lot more efficient as a farm
altogether.”
“For us, to know that our hogs are being well cared for
when we have to focus on other aspects of the farm is
just huge. Since bringing on a FarmTeam member,
we’ve seen improvements in
performance in our livestock.”
Rick Maurer
Maurer Farms
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