There could be 22,000 vacant jobs on farms across the country by 2030, a study done for the Canadian Agricultural Human Resource Council (CAHRC) has found. Without Temporary Foreign Workers (TFWs), the number of unfilled jobs could be in the 100,000 range.
That staggering figure comes to a sector that has been struggling for years with a chronic domestic worker shortage. CAHRC said there was a 15 per cent increase in job vacancies in 2022 that could not be filled by Canadians or residents of Canada.
Entitled Sowing Seeds of Change, the labour market study was conducted by the Conference Board of Canada for CAHRC. It concluded that the problem is due in part to Canada’s aging population as more than 85,300 people – 30 per cent of the farm workforce – are expected to retire by the end of this decade.
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