More than one-third of Canadian farms are facing labour shortages of both high and low-skilled workers, says a recent report from the Department of Agriculture.
“Around a third of producers, 35 percent, were facing labour market challenges in 2022,” said the report titled “2022 Strategic Issues Survey With Producers,” obtained by Blacklock’s Reporter.
“Recruitment of staff in general, regardless of skill level, is an important challenge producers had to face,” it said, adding that “the pandemic along with the massive quitting of workers that ensued, ‘The Great Resignation,’ might have exacerbated labour market challenges for farm producers as well.”
The report found that organic farmers, poultry producers, crop growers, and farmers with annual revenue greater than $1 million faced the most acute labour shortages….