Source:Brad Haire, FARM FUTURES, 10/2/17



Congressman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, Oct. 2 submitted a bill to create a new agricultural guestworker program. The Agricultural Guestworker Act, or the AG Act, replaces the H-2A guestworker program, which has been criticized for more than two decades as a burdensome, expensive and unworkable program, and the farmers and ranchers who use the program have argued that by doing so they are often put at a competitive disadvantage compared to those who do not use the program.

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