Source: Greg Johnson, THE PACKER, 9/19/17

Editor note: The NC Agribusiness Council supports the AgAct and appreciates Chairman Goodlatte's many years of effort to reform the agricultural guestworker program. 


U.S. Representative Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., plans to introduce the Agricultural Guestworker Act next week, which would replace the H-2A program that many fresh produce growers use for labor. Speaking Sept. 19 at the United Fresh Produce Association’s Washington Conference via video, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee said the AG Act would reduce red tape for growers and significantly improve on H-2A.

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