February 17, 2010

Farmers Say New H-2A Rule Adds Cost, Complexity

Changes announced to the federal H-2A visa program last week will make the process of hiring foreign workers for agriculture on a temporary or seasonal basis more expensive and add more layers of bureaucracy to the process of finding people to hire, said Sonoma County farmer Jeff Carlton, who has used the H-2A visa program for more than three years. California Farm Bureau

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