Source: Chuck Abbott, SUCCESSFUL FARMING, 11/10/21


With American farmers increasingly relying on foreign agricultural laborers, the Labor Department approved 317,619 seasonal guestworkers during the fiscal year that ended on Sept. 30, up 15% from a year earlier, a farmworker advocacy group said on Tuesday. It was the highest number of jobs ever approved for H-2A guestworker visas, said Farmworker Justice, a critic of the program. “Almost all employers’ applications were approved.” Florida, Georgia, and California were the leading states for visa approvals, together accounting for one-third of them.

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