FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 21, 2008

                                                                        Contact: Deanne Maus

                                                                        Mid American Ag and Hort Services, Inc.

                                                                        419.724.2930  (maahsadmin@eisc.org)

 

Mid American Ag and Hort Services to Host Kentucky Human Resource Conference  

Toledo , Ohio – Mid American Ag and Hort Services, Inc. (MAAHS), is hosting a comprehensive human resource conference for agriculture and horticulture businesses on June 18, 2008 , at the Pritchard Community Center , Elizabethtown , Kentucky . The one day conference will focus on helping producers of priority commodities manage legal and human resource risks. MAAHS is the labor organization dedicated to simplifying labor issues and transforming human resources for Kentucky , Indiana , and Ohio agricultural and horticultural businesses.  

“Producers of floricultural, ornamental nursery, Christmas trees, turf grass sod, fruit, vegetables, tobacco, and livestock face human resource and legal risks due to their need for hired labor,” noted Dr. Shari Plimpton, Executive Director for MAAHS. “The goal for this conference is to introduce some of these risks and educate producers on effective management tools to minimize and manage them.”  

The agenda includes two presentations by Dr. Bob Milligan, Senior Consultant with Dairy Strategies, LLC. Dr. Milligan provides insight to managers by presenting complex human resource and business concepts in formats that are understandable and useable. Dr. Milligan’s agenda topics include, “Understanding How Individuals – Including Yourself – Respond to Change,” and “Three Keys to Successful Supervision, Ways to Increase Workforce Productivity.”  

John Wargowsky, Sr. Director, Field Communications with the Ohio Farm Bureau Federation, is the former Executive Director of MAAHS with expertise and knowledge in labor and immigration compliance issues. Mr. Wargowsky will present on the topic, “What’s New with Labor and Immigration Compliance?”  

Registration is $50 for MAAHS members and $55 for non-members. A sharing and networking luncheon is included with each registration. Interested attendees can access registration forms through the website by visiting www.midamservices.org and clicking on Human Resource Conference. You may also contact Deanne Maus for more information or questions, 419-724-2930, maahsadmin@eisc.org.  

MAAHS is a unique non-profit, membership-based consortium of associations, organizations and employers organized to meet the educational, regulatory compliance assistance and labor recruiting needs of agricultural and horticultural employers in Indiana , Kentucky and Ohio . New members are welcome.

 

 

 

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