The agricultural workforce in England has experienced another year-on-year contraction with 5,000 fewer people working in the sector than in 2020. Defra’s June Survey of Agriculture puts the number of people employed in agriculture at 297,000 on 1 June, a 1.4% drop on the 2020 figure of 302,000. At the same point in 2019, there […]
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