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Farm jobs are hot and farming is cool. Good tidings for job seekers, our economy, communities and every one of us. Old-school farming is staging a comeback and that's even better. Small scale and organic farming help put people back in sync with our food production creating better stewards of our land, animals, and health by cultivating a food supply without synthetic pesticides, genetically modified organisms and toxic substances. It's healthier for consumers and also fosters a safer workplace providing better quality jobs for farm workers as well as improved conditions for farm animals and surrounding communities. It's farming closer to the way our grandparents and great grandparents farmed -- with the land.
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Promising trends documented in several recent studies show positive growth and paint a healthy job outlook for organic farming. According to one report, organic farms hired an average of 61 year-round employees compared to just 28 hired on conventional farms. Organic farms also hire more seasonal workers than conventional farms. Despite the economic recession, the organic industry has maintained a positive growth rate and ninety-six percent of organic operations surveyed were projecting to maintain or increase employment opportunities. The number of organic farmers must triple to 42,000 organic farmers by 2015 in order to meet projected market demand. Another report shows that the organic food industry generated more than five hundred thousand U.S. jobs in 2010 and that the use of organically produced ingredients resulted in creating 21 percent more jobs than would have been generated if ingredients were sourced from only conventional farms. For more on the strength and types of career opportunities in organic food production, read the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Outlook for Organics.
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Organic farming not only represents a viable source of jobs and healthier food but is also a positive force to help combat climate change, improve our watersheds and soil conditions, restore bird and bee populations and address risk factors of disease. Organic farming is a real and multifaceted investment in our economy, health and environment -- something to remember each time we choose organic food. Just imagine what organic farming could achieve with even greater demand and better policy support.
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"There are an estimated 57,900 jobs available annually in the field of agriculture, and only 35,400 graduates who have studied a field that would qualify them for those jobs."
- USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack (2015)
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