Source: GROWING PRODUCE, 7/29/19


Despite government red tape and its expense, the H-2A visa program has experienced rapid growth in recent years. For many specialty crop producers, it has become the only game in town to source reliable labor. In an effort to address grower complaints about the program, Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue convened a working group made up of stakeholders and the regulatory agencies involved in managing the program to seek improvements.

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