AEM101 | Me and My Farm - January 2025

Agricultural English Mentorship (AEM)

AEM 101 | Me and My Farm — January 2025
A 6-week course designed for Spanish-speaking agricultural workers to improve their English skills through pre-recorded video lessons, personalized live Zoom instruction, and a dedicated mentorship within their farm.

This is a beginning English course that focuses on their English pronunciation helping them to know how to say and spell out names and places in their area correctly, and understanding the mission statements, history and vision of their farm. This is a mentorship course that requires an English speaker from their farm sign up with each participant to ensure individualized success specific to each farm


AEM 101 | Yo y mi rancho — enero de 2025
Un curso de 6 semanas diseñado específicamente para trabajadores agrícolas de habla hispana para mejorar sus habilidades en inglés a través de lecciones en video pregrabadas, instrucción personalizada en vivo por Zoom y una mentoría dedicada dentro de su rancho.

Este es un curso de inglés para principiantes que se enfoca en la pronunciación, ayudando a pronunciar y deletrear los nombres y lugares de su área correctamente, así como en entender las declaraciones de misión, la historia y la visión de su rancho. Este curso de mentoría requiere que un hablante de inglés de su rancho se inscriba con cada participante para asegurar un éxito individualizado específico de cada rancho.


Coordinator: Rachel McCarthy

ASL104 | Staffing and Organizing Your Team -- January 2025

Agricultural Supervisory Leadership (ASL)

ASL104 | Staffing and Organizing your Team. Finding the right employees to work on your farm can pose many challenges but hiring the wrong person can be costly! In Staffing and Organizing your Team, you will learn the benefits of professionalizing your Human Resource systems and becoming a preferred employer. Learn how to recruit a candidate pool to find the right employees, and how to avoid bias and discrimination in hiring. You will also learn how to improve your interview and selection process, and how to implement a strong onboarding program. This six-week online course is part of Cornell Agricultural Workforce Development’s Agricultural Supervisory Leadership certificate program. It is appropriate for new and experienced farm managers.

Topics:

  • Becoming a preferred employer
  • Personnel planning
  • Job descriptions
  • Avoiding bias and discrimination
  • Recruiting and interviewing
  • The selection process
  • Hiring and onboarding

Course instructors:

  • Richard Stup, Cornell Agricultural Workforce Development Specialist
  • Elizabeth Higgins, Ag Business Management/Production Economics Specialist, CCE ENY Commercial Horticulture Team
  • Bob Milligan, Cornell University Professor Emeritus
  • Kaitlyn Lutz, Dairy Management Specialist, CCE Northwest New York Dairy, Livestock & Field Crops
  • Libby Eiholzer, Dairy Technical Services Specialist, Cargill

Coordinator: Rachel McCarthy