American
Farm Bureau says demand for the H-2A guest worker program is three times
greater than a decade ago and employees have seen wages increase more than a 30
percent.
The
Department of Labor reports the 2019 fiscal year again saw a record number of
positions filled, more than a quarter-million, with the most requests received
in the second quarter.
Farm Bureau
economist Veronica Nigh tells Brownfield Ag News, “Once you kind of dig into
the data what you see is, it’s a wider and wider variety of farms of different sizes.
Continue reading AFBF analysis on high H-2A wages at Brownfield Ag News.
