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I’m thinking of hiring. Providing a truck and fuel for work and transportation to and from work. Flexible schedule also for family time and vacations. Wanting to offer fair wages not sure what others are paying there guys?
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I work as a farm manager and my salary is at the high end of the range of the other postings here. I am basically the owner's replacement doing most everything except writing the checks and selling the grain. I have worked as a grunt employee over the years for a couple of different operations and I can tell you that money will only last so long as a motivator for an employee especially if the w...
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Start them where you feel comfortable you can always increase their pay if you feel they earn it and don’t do hourly unless you have a time clock for them to clock in and out of.
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Find someone to pay you for the ag experience.
$15-$17/hour USD
We are looking for some one full time and having problems finding anyone that wants to work! We are paying $28/hr (canadian) and would welcome a monthly salary all year long. Strictly a grain farm of about 5800 acres and new equipment but we can't find anyone! Nobody even applying!
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start everyone at 35K and tell them they have the opportunity to double that salary within 18 months if they learn it and earn it. If they prove to be willing to turn-key handle certain aspects of your operation and take some work load off of you and are willing to stick it out till the job is done (as farmers we need hired help that are finishers!) if they are the type that starts to think they...
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I'm in total agreement with the thoughts of a finisher.
That is great advice! If you start too high on pay the incentive is not there, there has to be “up” opportunities for the hard worker. 9-5 er’s don’t work in this business.
I’m looking to hire someone in the central MS Delta to run my operation when I’m not there.
how much would you work for? What are you offering that has non monetary value. Myself having worked in town I wouldn't do a thing for less than 50. It takes that much to live and save a little of you aren't providing housing.
$55-65k. We also use H2A labor from South Africa which cost us about $35k for 10 months.
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Are you going to be able to get the South African help this year with this Covid-19 issue?
yes
So do the South Africa guys have equipment and truck driving experience
Depends on experience but $45-60,000. For a good one figure no less than 55,000.
My full time man does great and I don’t have to be there 80% of the the I’m paying him 15 a hour no taxes took out just cash
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Where do you get that kind of CASH!? And how many hrs a week avg does he get?
I'm in Northwest Kansas. Row crop and cow calf operation. Looking for a full time hired hand if anybody is reading this and knows someone looking for work.
The best help I get has just worked out. I have one guy that helps on a regular basis. Semi retired and became a bachelor. I help keep him busy with a hourly pay that wasn’t really high. Just provided a cheap car and fuel to get to the farm. Been around for almost a year and he just moved into my parents old house after mom moved to town. So, I have paid harvest help on the high end to get g...
Have a guy that only works April 1 - Nov 31st. He hauls all about 200 loads of corn and beans on his own schedule. Runs combine in fall. Can do some tillage and minor equipment repairs. Pay $30k salary. He takes time off in the summer because it’s slow. I’m not at the farm during the week so he is the guy around the yard too.
Used to be hourly but that was to variable with other part time help “...
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We are 48k with benefits and a yearly bonus that varies anywhere from $2500-$15k depending on the year we have And if we do any custom work. This is salary based on 2000 hours a year. Usually take a month or so off after harvest and don’t work many Fridays in the summer. Guys clock in and out everyday. If they get more than 2000 hours at the end of the year that is reflected in there bonus
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What size is your operation?
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What type of benefits?
young hard working guys with ambition and experience. I could take the whole year off and have full confidence I would not be disappointed
As many have said.....”what type of help”. Someone that can totally be my replacement and i know will do it exactly like i would and need no help.....60k+. A warm body in a seat....25-30
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We have 2 full time guys and we are paying 42k plus some benefits
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What size operation do you have?
What type of benefits?
There is a lot of difference base on experience. Putting someone behind a semi/gravity wagon or tractor that has never done could set back harvest really fast if messed up! Biggest thing is finding someone that understand new and old technology. I used to work for a another Farmer beside farming my self. He could take off any day he wanting and he knew things would get done and would get done...
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An “experienced” guy can be more expensive than you think. Sure you don’t have to teach him how to run your machines, but he’s going to run it the way someone else taught him. Might cost you a lot in repairs. I’d rather get a guy that works hard and cares about me being happy with the job he did. Those guys are worth whatever it costs to keep them.
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Bad experience is worse then no experience! Just remember If he is looking for a job, there might be a reason why!
Depends how good they are. If they are someone who can do what he is told and nothing more then mid 30s is pretty fair. If they can run the farm better think 70+
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Depends on “experience”. Are we talking a person that could replace you if you were to be put out of work for awhile due to an accident? Or someone that has a few years in tractor seat but needs more babysitting on day to day non tractor driving stuff?
For a full on replacement type of experienced fellow, ask yourself what you’d want to be paid for the type of job if it were offered to you. For t...
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