Op Ed: American agriculture needs farm workforce modernization
American farmers feel like the little red hen working alone to grow the wheat, mill the flour, and make the bread, as they struggle to meet labor demands across sectors.
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American farmers feel like the little red hen working alone to grow the wheat, mill the flour, and make the bread, as they struggle to meet labor demands across sectors.
Farmworkers make up less than one percent of all U.S. wage and salary workers, but they are vital to the country’s agriculture. They labor every day in fruit orchards and dairy farms, in blazing heat and freezing cold, to ensure that families have food on their tables.
Under the new visa pilot program, the administration is prioritizing growers’ profits over farmworkers’ rights.
A new pilot grant program through the U.S. Department of Agriculture is providing between $25,000 to $2 million for agricultural employers to hire H2A workers.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is seeking reviewers to evaluate grant applications submitted under ...