Tips for retaining staff on a pig farm

03-11-2025 | |
Camerlink
Irene Camerlink PhD, assistant professor, Polish Academy of Sciences
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Most pig farms around the world will recognise the problem that it is hard to retain staff. Photo: Bert Jansen
One of the difficulties at farms is to find and retain good staff members. The job is often low paid and involves dirty work and that does not help much providing staff with a satisfactory job. Even less appealing may be the companies where staff has to stay on-site and be separated from family. Welfare and production expert Dr Irene Camerlink sums up what can be learnt from some farms that have shown to be successful in attracting and keeping staff. Reward good work Encourage all staf


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