IARN — The Farm Workforce Modernization Act has twice passed in the U.S. House of Representatives in recent years. Now farmers and farmworkers are hoping that the bill can make its way through the U.S. Senate in the final weeks of 2022 during the lame duck session of congress.
The Farm Workforce Modernization Act is a bipartisan bill that would make changes to the H-2A agricultural guest worker program and would allow farm workers and their families to earn legal status through continued employment in the agriculture industry.
Michael Dykes, president and CEO of the International Dairy Foods Association, says that his members who produce dairy products are in desperate need for workers.
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