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However, survey data sources, such as the American Community Survey and the Current Population Survey, also find rising farm employment since the turn of the century.
Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census. Farm laborers have lower levels of educational attainment, are more likely to be Hispanic of Mexican origin, and are less likely to be citizens than both workers in other occupations in agriculture and the U. Differences in demographics are also evident between crop and livestock workers not shown in table.
A larger share of laborers in crops and related support industries are female 28 percent versus 22 percent in livestock. Crop laborers are also less likely to be non-Hispanic White 24 percent versus 50 percent for livestock , and less likely to have been born in the United States 37 percent for crop workers in manual labor occupations versus 61 percent for manual livestock workers.
Finally, crop laborers have lower levels of educational attainment: 53 percent lack a high school degree, compared with 34 percent in livestock. Notably, the U. As fewer young immigrants are entering agriculture, the average age of foreign-born farmworkers has risen, pulling up the average for the farm workforce as a whole.
The average age of immigrant farmworkers rose by 6 years between and In contrast, the average age for U. The share of farmworkers who are women declined in —09, from The fact that the female share fell during the Great Recession and has risen during the recovery is consistent with men moving into agriculture as employment in the nonfarm economy declines, and out of agriculture as nonfarm job prospects improve.
The rising female share is also consistent with the fact that, as labor costs rise, some growers are adopting mechanical aids such as hydraulic platforms that replace ladders in tree-fruit harvesting, and mobile conveyor belts that reduce the distance heavy loads must be carried which facilitate more women and older workers in performing tasks that traditionally have been performed by younger men. According to the American Community Survey, sixty nine percent of hired farmworkers reside in counties that are defined as metro urban.
This largely reflects the fact that most of the main farming areas in California, Arizona, and other Western States lie in large counties that also include major cities and thus are defined as metropolitan.
According to data from the FLS, real inflation-adjusted wages for nonsupervisory crop and livestock workers excluding contract labor rose at an average annual rate of 1. In the past 5 years, however, real farm wages grew at 2. In other words, the gap between farm and nonfarm wages is slowly shrinking, but still substantial. For four out the six nonsupervisory occupations, however, wages were more than 4 percent higher in than in not adjusted for inflation.
As a result, labor costs as a share of gross cash income do not show an upward trend for the industry as a whole over the past 20 years.
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