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Canada's Grain Industry Facing Labor Shortages

There is a warning that Canada's grain and oilseed industry is expected to see one in four jobs go unfilled due to a lack of available workers.
 
The Canadian Agricultural Human Resource Council says this could be devastating to the industry's growth.
 
A report says in 2018 alone, the grain and oilseed sector lost 594 million dollars in sales due to labour shortages.
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