To clarify, that's the demand for labour in farming has shrunk while crop yields per acre have increased.

Three people doing the work required to seed, spray, harvest 4,000 Hectares for assorted barley, canola, etc is commonplace today in areas that once struggled to farm a few hundred hectares with four brothers and a father.

And yet, within the last couple years, the unemployment rate has remained stable within its usual 3-5% healthy band, and the total amount of people employed has increased overall.

Where labor has contracted in some places, it has grown elsewhere.