Finding labor is one of the biggest headaches for farmers and agribusinesses. National Council of Farmer Cooperatives President and CEO Chuck Conner says efforts are underway to ease the labor shortage by making the foreign guestworker program more assessable. “In the meantime, there’s been new rules put out by the Biden Administration that would not be helpful but actually take us backwards quite a bit,” said Conner. “This rule was put into effect on April 1 and is taking us backward in terms of higher cost and fewer farmers being able to use the H2A program; labor is a real mess right now.” Lawsuits have been filed in an attempt to shut down the Biden rule.
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