The 2022 Kansas Ag Workforce Needs Assessment Survey shows that the industry continues to suffer from the labor shortage with more than 50 percent of ag-related jobs being unfilled.
State Ag Secretary Mike Beam tells Brownfield that skilled labor, transportation, and livestock handling jobs have the highest demand according to the survey released during the summit, “Everybody feels it, even if it’s a farm that provides all their own labor, they feel it.
