I recently read an article on farm labour shortage indicating that “the domestic labour pool is expected to drop largely due to an older-than-average workforce and few young entrants.” I have also heard conversations like, young people don’t want to work, or they don’t know how to work. Yet, I have also met some very motivated young people who are looking to start sheep farming and are finding the task of learning everything needed, financing an operation, etc. daunting. This is not a new issue and is governed by a complex matrix of factors. I would like to bring up one factor that I haven’t heard talked about often in the sheep industry and that is workplace culture. I know…
