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.
Dykes says that the need for labor is a unifying force across all areas of industry for producers and manufacturers and especially in the agriculture industry.
Michael Dykes says that United States producers have built a system that provides the best products to the market but it is short on one key piece.
The International Dairy Foods Association (IDFA) recently commissioned a Morning Consult national tracking poll and found that Nine-in-ten Democratic voters (88%), four-in-five Republican voters (79%), and four-in-five independent voters (80%) say that addressing food costs through bipartisan immigration reform is important to them.
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