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Why KSU, baking industry face similar recruitment challenges

Since Sliced Bread
Since Sliced Bread
Episode • Oct 28, 2020 • 30m

Kansas State University’s Department of Grain Science and Industry has been supplying the next generation of bakers to the commercial baking industry for years. The department itself though, struggles with the same recruitment issues the industry does. In this episode, KSU Grain Sciences Department Head Gordon Smith, PhD, and Aaron Clanton, Baker’s National Education Foundation instructor, share how the workforce gap looks from the university program’s perspective.