Items Tagged with 'H-2A visa program'

Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack is looking for a new proposal from Mexico to change its looming presidential decree on barring genetically modified corn.

Work continues on Capitol Hill this week on a possible deal that could win Senate passage for the Farm Workforce Modernization Act.

Leading farm groups are making another appeal to senators ahead of their August recess to reach agreement on reforms to the H-2A visa program for farmworkers.

In this opinion piece, Jen Sorenson with the NPPC discusses why the H-2A visa program needs to be expanded.

Some leading agriculture groups are urging lawmakers to reach a bipartisan agreement on infrastructure.

Lawmakers are hoping to protect vulnerable H-2A temporary guestworkers from exploitative practices by returning to two earlier legislative proposals.

In this opinion piece, from former Sen. Heidi Heitkamp, D-N.D. discusses the issues facing agriculture employment.