Editor’s note: Dairy farms are big employers of immigrant labor as well, and the need for workers has the National Milk Producers Federation renewing its call for dairy farms to be given access to the H-2A Ag Guest Worker Visa Program. The organization sent a letter to the president earlier this year asking the White House to issue an executive order to exempt dairy-worker positions from H-2A’s seasonality restriction. The action would help dairy farmers recruit workers, control labor costs and ease food inflation. The federation says unlike the rest of ag, the dairy industry is unable to use that H-2A program because of the year-round nature of dairy production. And dairy farms will not be able to survive, let alone thrive, without a steady, reliable workforce.
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Samantha Ayoub
Samantha Ayoub is an associate economist with the American Farm Bureau Federation’s Market Intel. Visit www.fb.org/market-intel for more information.
