Source: Jacqui Fatka, NATIONAL HOG FARMER, 3/4/21


A widely supported solution for ongoing agricultural labor woes – the Farm Workhouse Modernization Act – was reintroduced in the House Wednesday as Congress again looks to advance immigration reform. The bipartisan bill, which passed in the House in 2019 by a vote of 260-165, makes meaningful reforms to the H-2A agricultural guestworker program and creates a first-of-its-kind, merit-based program specifically designed for the nation’s ag sector.

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