A new report says the gap between labour demand and the domestic workforce in agriculture has doubled from 30,000 to 59,000 over the past decade.

The report called Agriculture 2025 projects that by that date the Canadian agri-workforce could be short 114,000 workers.

The study was done by the Canadian Agricultural Human Resource Council. The study only examined primary production.

It was based on a survey of more than one thousand employers in agriculture, meetings with industry leaders, webinars and six focus groups.