The Ag industry is booming with jobs despite economic troubles in most other areas. Todd Winters, Dean of the College of Agricultural Sciences at SIU in Carbondale, says they're having trouble filling all of the positions that are available.
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Winters says they're reaching out to students in the urban and suburban areas to fill in the gaps. He says one of their students will be heading to Cuba over the summer to build relationships and prepare the way for trade when the embargo is lifted.