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
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Gov. Kathy Hochul’s call to expedite work permits for new migrants to work on farms has some in the agriculture industry worried about the migrants having the right skillset. Hochul said this week that there are more than 5,000 jobs in agriculture in upstate New York. “The cows don’t wait to be milk, the plants need to be maintained
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How food gets on our plate is often a mere afterthought. We eat three meals a day and munch on late night snacks, but the farmers and agricultural workers providing this food remain completely out of sight. We expect food to show up on our local grocery store shelves day after day and week after week, but what would happen
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OTTAWA, Feb. 15, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — At a time when Canadian agriculture continues to struggle with a chronic worker shortage, new data from the Canadian Agricultural Human Resource Council (CAHRC) has found that by the year 2030, there will be more than 100,000 vacant jobs to fill in the industry. This labour market supply and demand forecast is a
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Gov. Greg Abbott’s shipping of tens of thousands of confused migrants from Texas to New York City and other blue enclaves over the last two years has little to do with economics. It is about scoring political points (and annoying the hell out of his Democratic counterparts across the Northeast). His arguments revolve around “burden sharing” — that is, unloading the burden of immigration onto political
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Montreal, Canada –“It would be contrary to the whole Canadian belief in freedom of the individual.” The year was 1952, and Canada’s then-minister of immigration, Walter Harris, was rebuffing the idea of tying immigrant farmworkers from Europe to their Canadian employers. “However, it is my opinion that the Canadian people would be entirely opposed to any such practice.” Fifteen years
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Moncho had just started building a life in Florida when SB 1718, a broad law targeting both undocumented immigrants and the people in their lives, passed through the state legislature last May. In the weeks that followed, his home stopped feeling like home. He began seeing more cops and state troopers in his town, a predominantly immigrant community. He feared it
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Farm machinery hubs are meant to enable farmers take crop harvesters on hire for a short time, use them and return them. Karnataka government has issued guidelines to help farmers’ groups set up farm machinery hubs in rural areas. This will enable farmers to take crop harvesters on hire for a short time, use them and return them. The State
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Few industries in Estonia, like medical professions, agriculture and farming, and manufacturing, are facing labor shortages. For this reason, foreigners are in high demand in Estonia. According to the country’s official statistics, 12,040 job vacancies were recorded in the third quarter of this year. Estonia reported the highest number of shortages among 10 countries, according to the European Labour Authority
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