Declines in migration expected to exacerbate labor shortages

CoBank’s Knowledge Exchange Director says the labor crunch across the U.S. is only going to get tighter. Rob Fox tells Brownfield the historic surge in immigration in recent years has helped to offset lower workforce participation rates. “They really made the problem kind of less acute for the time being, but in 2025 and moving […]

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