Agricultural labour problems loom large over 2024

The key challenge for businesses will remain around keeping good staff, particularly in the dairy sector

Ben Briggs
Ben Briggs is the group publisher and editor in chief of Agriconnect, overseeing the media business and titles such as Farmers Guardian, Dairy Farmer and Arable Farming.
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Agricultural labour problems loom large over 2024

Finding and retaining good staff would continue to be the major challenge for many farm businesses in 2024, a breakfast briefing by consultancy firm Andersons was told. Held on the Friday morning of...

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