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	Podcast:		Business Beat
	Episode:		Business Beat - Good news for ag science majors: The job market is hot
	Category:		Government & Organizations
	Duration:		00:04:44
	Publish Date:		2015-11-18 16:45:00
	Description:		Close to 60,000 jobs are set to open up in agriculture, food and natural resource sectors each year for the next five years, according to a report from Purdue University and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The American agriculture industry has a problem though; there are not enough grads to fill them. The report projects about two open jobs for every qualified graduate. That’s left the USDA, land grant universities and private industry scrambling to try and bridge the gap. When Colorado State University student Aubriel Jones tells her friends she’s studying agriculture, she sometimes gets puzzled looks. “They say, ‘Oh you’re learning about corn right? Or you’re learning about how cows eat?’ Things like that,” Jones says. But it’s way more than that. Ask what she’s actually studying, and it’s a mouthful. “My major is agricultural literacy,” Jones says. “I have a minor in global and environmental sustainability and another minor in agricultural and resource economics.” With
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