Business
Good young hands are crucial to the farming industry, yet they are becoming increasingly difficult to find. Young job seekers often look elsewhere: Due in large part to consolidation and automation, agriculture employment has dropped from 41% of the U.S. workforce at the start of 20th century to less than 2% at the start of the 21st, according to a U.S. Department of Agriculture report. Yet the USDA estimates that more than 20,000 agriculture jobs go unfilled each year. This podcast offers tactics to help you attract the best and brightest.