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, ...

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 ...

Agriculture students have been told there are excellent job prospects in the industry, but 90 per cent of them aren't on farms. Among the career choices are agricultural science, marketing and law.

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Keith Currie, president of the Ontario Federation of Agriculture, says the agriculture industry is a good place for people to find jobs, because there's a skilled labour shortage. (Bonnie Allen/CBC) ...

Farm industry working to modernize image Worker shortage has been apparent for at least eight years Connecting with colleges seen as key to addressing shortage WASHINGTON — U.S. agriculture and food ...

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 ...