Immigration reform can't pass Congress. Here's how that's hurting Kansas, Missouri farmers.
“Our daily struggle is labor,” said Mark Fellwock, the chairman of the Missouri Dairy Association. “We fight it every day.”
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Farming contract work on the rise | The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette - Arkansas' Best News Source
Six years ago, Illinois farmer John Ackerman didn't hire any contract workers at all. Now he typically hires about 22 every year through a local coordinator that helps farmers hire crews of agriculturally skilled, often Latino workers. Those teams hand-weed the soybeans Ackerman grows alongside the pumpkin and corn crops he uses for his primarily fall-focused agrotourism outfit.
Source: arkansasonline.com
Farming contract work on the rise | Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Six years ago, Illinois farmer John Ackerman didn't hire any contract workers at all. Now he typically hires about 22 every year through a local coordinator that helps farmers hire crews of agriculturally skilled, often Latino workers. Those teams hand-weed the soybeans Ackerman grows alongside the pumpkin and corn crops he uses for his primarily fall-focused agrotourism outfit.
Source: nwaonline.com
Migrant farmworkers in NC face a challenging system - Carolina Public Press
José Arturo González Mendoza’s death highlights wider issues in the H-2A visa program for seasonal farmworkers in NC.
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Migrant farmworkers in NC face a challenging system
Eleazar was 24 in 2014, when he began working seasonally with a H-2A visa for temporary agricultural workers at a tobacco farm in Benson, North Carolina.
Source: carolinacoastonline.com