Agricultural workers include occupations that perform a whole range of jobs involved in crop and livestock production. On the farm, workers plant, maintain, and harvest food crops; apply pesticides, herbicides, and fertilizer to crops; and cultivate plants used to beautify landscapes. Some workers ...
Iowa leads the U.S. in production of corn, eggs, and hogs and is the second-largest producer of soybeans and oats (NASS2022a). The gains realized in increased agricultural productivity throughout Iowa and the Midwest over the past 70 years are largely due to the rise of specialization, r...
literature that shows how people tend to move away from natural resource-dependent occupations as they become wealthier10,22,23,24,25. One potential interpretation of our findings is that alternative livelihood programs (e.g. jobs outside the fisheries or agricultural sectors, such as the service ...