Link here to Bloomberg.
A U.S. farm boom
showing few signs of a let-up isn’t translating into more opportunities
in one of the most robust areas of the economy. Farmers, ranchers and
other agricultural managers will see the steepest decline of any
employment category by 2020, losing a projected 96,000 jobs this decade
out of 1.2 million positions, part of a broader trend toward less labor in the sector, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The
drop comes even as agricultural managers have the highest median wage
of any of the top 20 declining categories, at more than $60,000 a year.
Farm owners like the Liefers are able to manage larger tracts of land
without hiring overseers. Full-time farm managers hired by others can
handle more property for more clients, said Jerry Warner, a past
president of the American Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers,
a farm- management organization based in Denver.
A chicken and egg problem. Lack of enough farm workers --> need to innovate/automate? Or did innovation/automation --> to decrease in farm workers?
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