Grant Program

Grant Program

APMP funds have been granted to support research and education projects in a variety of disciplines. An important criterion for program funding is a project's likelihood of providing practical guidance to personnel management decision-makers. Eligible projects serve at least one program objective and are led by a principal investigator or co-investigator who is an academic staff member of the University of California or California State University. Funding is based on recommendations of ad hoc technical advisers who review proposals anonymously in a two-stage process. The APMP mails out its requests for preliminary proposals in the fall.

The following list of projects funded by the APMP since 1989 illustrates the broad range of potential contributions to farm personnel management:

• Legal Research for Publication on Agricultural Labor Laws. Daniel L. Egan, Boalt Hall School of Law, Berkeley, in cooperation with Howard R. Rosenberg, CE Specialist, Agricultural and Resource Economics, Berkeley. $6,004.
• Growers' Decisions to Hire Labor Contractors and Custom Harvesters. Suzanne Vaupel, Research Agricultural Economist, Sacramento, in cooperation with Kaimanu A. Francisco, former Farm Advisor, UCCE, Hollister. $6,010.
• Survey of California Farm Employers. Philip L. Martin, Professor, Agricultural Economics, Davis. $3,600.
• Effects of Pay Basis on Results of Leaf Removal for Canopy Management in San Joaquin Valley Vineyards. James J. Stapleton, IPM Advisor, Parlier; Kathleen M. Kelley, Farm Advisor, UCCE, Modesto; and William W. Barnett, IPM Advisor, Parlier. $7,310.
• Educational Video on Selection of Agricultural Employees. Marcia Ceesay and Guadalupe Sandoval, Agricultural Workers' Health Centers, Stockton, in cooperation with Gregory E. Billikopf, Farm Advisor, UCCE, Modesto, and Harry Stroble, Production Director, Visual Media, Davis. $9,163. Also $7,500 to Visual Media, UC Davis.
• Women's Career and Mobility Patterns in Ventura Agriculture. Committee on Women in Agriculture,Ventura County Commission for Women, in cooperation with Lawrence K. Yee, UCCE Director, Ventura. $17,316.
• Initial Response of Farm Employers to the Immigration Control and Reform Act of 1986. David Mitchell, Graduate Student, Agricultural and Resource Economics, Berkeley, in cooperation with Howard R. Rosenberg. $3,200.
• Assisting Southeast Asian Farmers in Understanding Compensation Regulations and Developing Record Systems. Stephen R. Sutter, Farm Advisor, UCCE, Fresno. $4,000.
• Wage, Benefit, and Training Practices on California Dairies. Barbara A. Reed, Farm Advisor, UCCE, Merced. $15,000.
• Assessing Effectiveness of Skills Training for Almond Shaker Operators. Stephen R. Sutter and Mark W. Freeman, Farm Advisor, UCCE, Fresno. $4,450.
• Potential Effects of Modified Tools for Citrus Harvest Production and Workers Stephen R. Sutter and Mark W. Freeman, UCCE, Fresno. $4,450.
• Determinants of Vineyard Pruning Cost. Gregory E. Billikopf, Farm Advisor, UCCE, Modesto, and Maxwell Norton, Farm Advisor, UCCE, Merced. $1,280.
• Educational Video on Mixtec Farm Workers in California. Stefano Varese, Professor, Native American Studies, Davis; James I. Grieshop, CE Specialist, Applied Behavioral Sciences, Davis; John Reed, Production Manager, Instructional Television, Davis. Phase I: $3,000.
• Decision Making in the Family Farm Business. Amy Lyman, Lecturer, Applied Behavioral Sciences, Davis. $5,946.
• Booklet for Farm Workers on Management of Personal Finances. Karen P. Varcoe, CE Consumer Education Specialist, Riverside; Connie Costello, Staff Research Associate, Riverside; and Myriam Grajales-Hall, Information Representative, Riverside. $16,657.

The following projects have successfully completed preliminary review and are pending decision at the full-proposal stage:

• A Comparison of Management, Hiring, and Compensation Practices of Direct-Hire Growers and Farm Labor Contractors. Jeffrey M. Perloff, Professor, Agricultural and Resource Economics, Berkeley; Suzanne Vaupel, Research Agricultural Economist, Sacramento; David Runsten, California Institute for Rural Studies, Davis; and Stephen R. Sutter, Farm Advisor, UCCE, Fresno.
• Creating Employment Alternatives for Timber Industry Millworkers Facing Job Displacement Due to New or Impending Shifts in Legislative Policies. Peter C. Passof, Acting County Director, UCCE, Ukiah, in cooperation with Edward J. Blakely, Professor, Department of City and Regional Planning, Berkeley, and Donald Nelson, Timber Industry Labor Consultant, Fort Bragg.
• Computerized Data Base Personnel Management Tool for California Strawberry Farms. Louie H. Valenzuela, Area Farm Advisor, UCCE, Santa Maria.
• Farm Labor in the San Joaquin Valley Citrus Industry. Juan Vicente Palerm, Associate Professor, and Fred Krissman, PhD candidate, Anthropology, Santa Barbara.
• Managing Farm Safety Programs: Instructional Video and Manual. Stephen R. Sutter, Farm Advisor, UCCE, Fresno, and Guadalupe Sandoval, Agricultural Workers' Health Centers, Stockton.

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