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June 18, 2020
Everyone has a childhood. Regardless if that is a positive or negative experience, that crucial stage in your life is one of rapid growth and development. Ultimately the environment that you are brought up in will shape your cultural views […]
June 12, 2020
In the June article of National Hog Farmer, Valerie Duttlinger and Kasey Sheldon talk about the components of organizational health within barns. These concepts can be universal and not just specific to the swine industry. In this article they state […]
June 10, 2020
Myers Briggs (16 Types) is an assessment that has been around for a long time. It is based on the theory proposed by a Swiss psychiatrist, who speculated that people experience the world using four principal psychological functions; sensation, intuition, […]
September 20, 2019
New tools used to assess employees within their working environment provide valuable insights into optimizing worker satisfaction and performance – factors that directly and positively impact farm performance, In this study, the measurement of successful employees was tied specifically to […]
August 21, 2019
Topic: The Results of a Study on Employee Performance for Pig Farms In September 2019, Jon Hoek and Valerie Duttlinger with Summit SmartFarms presented at the Leman Swine Conference on the topic of making pig farms irresistible places to work. […]
August 21, 2019
A Labor Intelligence study done in 2019 by Summit Precision Production included employees from companies representing 5% of the US sow production base. Read more on their findings on how labor management has a major impact on profitable swine production. […]
June 3, 2019
In light of the cancellation of 2019 World Pork Expo, we were honored with the invitation to speak at the first Global Hog Industry Virtual Conference. Our CEO Jon Hoek and Human Strategy Coordinator, Kasey Sheldon talk about the initiatives […]