Professional agriculture

↑ complexity↑ self-reliance↑ compliance↑ variability↑ market standards/

accreditation↑ environmental challenges

Workforce which is:

- highly educated

- highly skilled

- attractive to best and brightest

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Plenty of graduates

No jobs

Outlook bleak

Contrary to experiences within universities

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Graduate supply included courses funded at agriculture rate

ie environment plus agriculture

Jobs based on adverts in: SMH and AGE x arbitrary factor

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> 4000 graduate jobs / year

~ 800 graduates per year (and declining)

Capacity decline

Amalgamation, restructure and attrition

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fewer qualified advisers

less capacity for R&D

poor advice

evidence-free products / services

(ie “snake oil”)

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