Acquiring top farm talent through new-to-agriculture strategies

Opinion

We recently posted a new episode of our Mind Your Farm Business podcast that focuses on human resource management. In conversation with four farmers across Canada we dug deep into topics like recruiting talent and methods to retaining the top performers. Not only were the farmers from a diverse geographic region, but their strategies for managing the people-side of the business were unique, too. Some farmers rely on finding local farm kids, some look to other geographies within Canada, and still others look abroad by recruiting farm labour from Central America, Europe, or Australia. There is no right answer to finding…