Items Tagged with 'H-2A workers'

The future of the farm bill remains up in the air with the House back in session after its long summer recess.

For the third Congress in a row, House members have offered a bill addressing agriculture’s labor shortage, reintroducing the Farm Workforce Modernization Act, which allows year-round ag labor for H-2A workers and creates a merit-based visa program for the ag sector.

The top Republican on the Senate Agriculture Committee is setting a key condition for the next farm bill.