The Canadian ag industry lost about $3.5 billion in sales in 2022 because the industry didn’t have enough workers, the Canadian Agricultural Human Resource Council (CAHRC) said on Nov. 1.
For context, CAHRC indicated the ag sector lost about $2.9 billion in sales in 2020 because of a labour shortage.
Data also highlighted how Canada leans on out-of-country employees.
Canadian ag employed more than 420,000 workers in 2022 with nearly 25 per cent of them (or around 105,000) being foreign workers, CAHRC says.