Given agriculture’s ongoing struggle to recruit domestic workers and a very tight U.S. labor market overall, it should be no surprise that H-2A program usage reached new highs again in …
Farm Labor
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Ag producers welcomed the news last week that South African farm workers may obtain an exemption from U.S. COVID travel bans. These workers have become an essential tool to relieve …
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The Department of Agriculture says the number of H-2A workers increased fivefold between 2005 and 2019. Calling the data an indicator of the scarcity of farm labor, USDA’s Economic Research …
