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There’s plenty of talk in the media about how employers have to engage with Generation Y – those 18-34 year olds who love to multi-task on their tablets, smartphones and laptops. But it’s more than media hype – Gen Y will be a majority in the workforce by 2020[1], when they will make up 42%…

If you’re in agribusiness, you’ll know that finding good candidates for jobs can be like finding the proverbial needle in a haystack. It’s probably keeping a good proportion of you awake at night. With recent research[1] showing that Australian universities are producing less than 20% of the agricultural graduates needed to satisfy the job market,…

With the world’s population projected to grow from 7 to 8 billion by 2025, the power balance – in sheer population numbers and in wealth – will shift from west to east. A staggering 85% of population growth in that time is projected to take place in Asia and it will spark the biggest growth…

With the number of children studying agriculture in high schools dropping significantly in the past 15 years, agribusinesses must play a larger role in encouraging students to take an interest in the industry. In 1997, more than 2,200 Year 12 students in NSW studied agriculture courses for their HSC. But in 2012, that figure was…