Getting a break over summer has huge benefits for a sharemilker or contract milkers mental and physical health, but its not always easy to make happen. This blog discusses alternatives to “getting a relief milker” that farm owners and sharefarmers to consider

What are your options if you wanting to step off farm? Breaking down sharemilking and contract milking to make this more simple this recruitment season

Resentment can start as innocently as the buckets by the cowshed not being stacked quite how you like them, small things being missed while someone is busy. The farm owner being a bit abrupt on the phone.

All of the above can be solved but it takes action, actively choosing to get the communication right, and remembering that everyone has bad days. But if we don’t deal with resentment at the start (or prevent it altogether), the small things suddenly become big things because resentment is amplifying them. The next thing you know, you aren’t talking to each other, and the sharefarmer is moving on after just one season.