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Sara Mann is working in a niche area of research, but one that is critical to the Canadian agriculture industry. An associate professor at the University of Guelph in the College of Business and Economics, Sara not only studies rural and agricultural human resource problems, but also brings new resources and training back to the industry. Sara says the career path that lead her to human resource research was not planned, but rather a series of opportunities that were the righ
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