Source: Amy Sowder, THE PACKER, 6/21/19


With immigration restrictions, trade negotiations and retaliatory tariffs, importing labor has been a challenge for mid-Atlantic produce growers who depend on the resource. Most of these workers come to the farms through the H-2A temporary agricultural program. It’s a way for nonimmigrant foreign workers to come to the U.S. to perform agricultural labor or services on a temporary or seasonal basis.

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