KDA
TOPEKA - The Kansas Department of Agriculture (KDA) is asking for participants in the 2022 Kansas Agriculture Workforce Needs Assessment Survey.
"During conversations with stakeholders, including those at Ag Growth Summits, we continually hear the need to identify the specific jobs available in Kansas and the skills needed to fill open or new positions within agriculture," said Mike Beam, Kansas Secretary of Agriculture.
In an effort to better understand current workforce issues, trends and needs within the Kansas agriculture industry, KDA is calling on industry partners to help identify workforce needs among agricultural employers in the state by conducting the second Kansas Agriculture Workforce Needs Assessment Survey.
The 2015 survey results helped guide KDA and partners to develop immersion activities connecting secondary school students with local agriculture businesses to learn about career opportunities.
Kansas farmers, ranchers, agribusinesses, manufacturers and producers of agricultural products are all asked to complete the survey to help KDA identify the number and types of jobs in the state’s agriculture industry, and the specific skills required for those jobs.
The survey is currently being offered online at agriculture.ks.gov/workforce and will be open until April 8, 2022.
The above provides a QR code to take participants directly to the survey. The survey should take no more than 15 minutes to complete, and the information will remain anonymous.
"We anticipate results to be available this summer with discussion of the findings at the 2022 Ag Growth Summit," Beam said. "KDA will utilize the information to steer future discussions and identify solutions for positive changes for our state’s leading economic driver — agriculture."
For specific questions, contact Russell Plaschka, KDA agribusiness development director, at [email protected].