Source: Logan Hawkes, FARM PROGRESS, 10/2/19


Many U.S. farmers, especially produce and specialty crop producers, rely heavily on the Department of Labor’s H-2A temporary ag worker visa program each year to bring their crops to market. But in recent years time-consuming complications associated with the visa program process to secure temporary farm workers has made the process of getting the number of workers in the field burdensome when crops are ready for harvest.   It has also created operational and economic hardships for many farmers.

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