Bonnie Johnson
February 24, 2025
Market ResearchThe Canadian agricultural industry plays a crucial role in supplying everyday essentials while offering millions of stable and rewarding careers. At AgCareers, we’re dedicated to connecting candidates with employers in the agriculture and food sectors. We seek to strengthen the industry’s talent pipeline by raising awareness of the diverse career opportunities available. As part of this commitment, AgCareers conducts an annual analysis of job trends to gain insights into hiring and candidate behaviour within the sector. The newly released AgCareers Canadian Agriculture & Food Job Report is available now.
JOBS
Over 700 employers posted jobs on AgCareers.com in 2024 across more than 20 industry sectors. Finance, Banking, Insurance & Real Estate was the leading industry type in Canada, followed by Commodities & Trading, and Equipment, Manufacturing & Technical. Careers were most plentiful for Accounting/Finance, Business Development, Communication/Public Relations, and Agronomists.
Employers posted more than 40% of the Canadian jobs in the Prairies region, including Manitoba and Saskatchewan. Looking specifically at provinces, the top-posting province was Saskatchewan, followed by Alberta and Ontario. Data from the recent AgCareers HR Review reports that 26% of agriculture and food employers offered some type of remote work arrangements. The new AgCareers job report data shows that these remote positions were most frequently sales and business development positions in the Animal Health and Communications/Public Relations industries.
CANDIDATES
Likewise, applicants are increasingly searching for work-from-home roles, with “remote” being the top search term on AgCareers.com. Candidates performed over 14,000 searches for remote roles, a 66% increase from the prior year.
Over 1,600 new Canadian candidates created job seeker accounts on AgCareers in 2024 and added more than 700 resumes to the database. There were more than 9,000 applications from Canadian candidates, an increase of 25% over the prior year. Ontario and Alberta, followed by Saskatchewan, were the top three provinces for applicants. Seventy percent of applicants had a bachelor’s degree or higher, and more than half had an ag-based degree. Illustrating the breadth of talent, students comprised 13% of applicants, while conversely, 41% of applicants had more than five years of experience.
