Why US Farms Increasingly Rely on Guestworker Programs
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American farmers would prefer not to use H-2A, and farmworker advocates say the program enables abuse. So how did it become agriculture’s go-to option?

Despite that explosive growth—from 50,000 workers to 400,000 in under 20 years—farms are struggling more than ever to find workers. This is the result of several overlapping trends, including increased consolidation of farms, changes in immigration policy, and U.S. citizens less willing to do farm work. “We’ve been an industry that has been labor challenged […]

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