Since 1980, Purdue University, in consultation with the USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture, has been releasing reports on the state of employment in the agricultural field. The latest, ...

After surprising on the upside by posting a strong quarterly growth of 2.3% quarter-on-quarter and 6.1% year-on-year in Q1 of 2024, the primary agriculture sector saw a sharp downturn in the number of ...

One stereotype about undocumented workers in the U.S. is that they occupy agricultural jobs that could be filled by Americans in need of work. The United Farm Workers (UFW) of America labor union is ...

A significant decline in enrollment of high school and college students in agriculture courses in recent years has produced new job opportunities for students who choose to enter the field. That`s the ...

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The Canadian Agricultural Human Resource Council (CAHRC) forecasts that the agriculture sector will have about 100,000 unfilled job positions by the year 2030. CAHRC estimates that the domestic labour ...