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Labor Markets, Jobs, and High Priority Occupations

Labor Markets, Jobs, and High Priority Occupations. Creating a Foundation for a Successful Agricultural Education Program PASA-PSBA School Leadership Conference October 14, 2010. Labor Market. Ag labor market is changing Family farm is still dominant;

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Labor Markets, Jobs, and High Priority Occupations

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  1. Labor Markets, Jobs, and High Priority Occupations Creating a Foundation for a Successful Agricultural Education Program PASA-PSBA School Leadership Conference October 14, 2010

  2. Labor Market • Ag labor market is changing • Family farm is still dominant; • As scale of farming operations increase, new occupations are opening up • Dairy herdsmen • Flock managers; • Vertical integration of supply chain creates new challenges as production, processing, and logistics blur; • Technology and increasing requirements around food security complicate the environment

  3. Jobs • Pennsylvania has somewhere around 72,000 jobs in the producer world with another 13,300 in support activities; • Food and beverage production add another 77,000 jobs; • Highest concentration of both in Lancaster and Chester Counties

  4. Contribution to GMP • Jobs are not reflective of the real contribution of agriculture to the State and regional economies; • Agriculture is highly productive; • In Lancaster County alone, roughly 27,500 jobs can be directly attributed to agriculture (9.4% of the workforce) and about $4.7B in sales or roughly 13.3% of the regional economy annually

  5. High Priority Occupations • With the increasing sophistication of agricultural operations, new career paths are developing that bring new levels of knowledge and skills around management, environmental, and engineering as well as plant and animal science into play; • We need a more highly skilled person to do the business of agriculture;

  6. High Priority Occupations • Pennsylvania has identified High Priority Occupations in each major industry cluster that are essential to the industry and which offer family-sustaining job opportunities for workers; • The process of identification begins with the Center for Workforce Information and Analysis at the PA Department of Labor and Industry but also relies on input from local Workforce Investment Boards;

  7. High Priority Occupations • Investments by the Commonwealth in training and education in the workforce and formal education systems must be connected to a High Priority Occupation • Individual Training Accounts • Curriculum in Career and Technical Programs • Support for Equipment Purchases in Education;

  8. The Ag Dilemma • No HPOs in agriculture a year ago; • Ag educators in Lancaster County recognized the problem and approached the WIB; • WIB assembled key actors to develop a strategy; • WIBs in the Berks, Bucks, Central, Lancaster, Northern Tier, Southern Alleghenies, and West Central workforce investment areas petitioned the PA Department of Labor and Industry to include SOC 11-9012 Farmer and Rancher on the Statewide HPO list

  9. High Priority Occupations in Agriculture • Standard Occupational Codes • 11-9011 • Farm, Ranch, and Other Agricultural Managers • 45-1011 • Supervisors – Farming, Fishing, and Forestry Workers • Agreed upon by Secretaries of Agriculture, Education, and Labor and Industry

  10. Farm, Ranch, and Other Agricultural Managers • Manage farms, ranches, aquacultural operations, greenhouses, nurseries, timber tracts, packing houses, or other agricultural establishments; • Carry out production, financial, and marketing decisions; • Contracts farmers or producers to carry out day to day operations; • Supervise planting, cultivating, harvesting, and marketing activities; • Prepare cost, production, and other records; • May perform physical work and operate machinery

  11. Supervisors – Farming, Fishing, and Forestry Workers • Directly supervise and coordinate the activities of agricultural, forestry, aquacultural, and related workers; • Harvest Crew Supervisor, Farm Manager, Fish Hatchery Supervisor

  12. Alignment with CIP Codes • 01.000 Agriculture, General • 01.0301 Agricultural Productions Operations • 01.0901 Animal Sciences • 01.999 Agriculture Operations and Related Sciences

  13. Result • Every ag-related curriculum offering in the education system now has one or two HPOs that are officially recognized by the Commonwealth; • Ag teachers are now able to have an occupational anchor for their programming

  14. Contact Scott Sheely Executive Director Lancaster County Workforce Investment Board 313 W. Liberty St., Suite 114 Lancaster, PA 17603 717-735-0333 ssheely@verizon.net www.lancastercountywib.com www.KeepLancasterCountyFarming.com

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