Innovations for a Shrinking Agricultural Workforce

Diane Charlton, J. Edward Taylor, Stavros Vougioukas and Zachariah Rutledge

Choices: The Magazine of Food, Farm, and Resource Issues, 2019, vol. 34, issue 2

Abstract: We analyze the adoption of labor-saving technologies in the agricultural industry. Investment in new technologies should plan for a smaller, more educated workforce because the U.S. farm sector faces a long-term decline in labor supply and education is rising in regions that traditionally supplied workers to U.S. farms.

Keywords: Farm Management; Labor and Human Capital (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.288509

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