Students get crash course on agriculture as job crunch worsens

Hundreds of students got a taste of the numerous jobs available in Ontario’s agriculture industry earlier this month in Listowel.“They're not the original jobs you might think of, but they're so important,” said Madison Lammer, from AgScape, a non-profit organization promoting agriculture amongst Ontario students. One in nine jobs in Canada are in the agriculture and food industry, but with 40 per cent of Canada’s farmers retiring in the next decade, and another 24,000 ag