Delegations of upstate New York farmers have traveled to Washington to lobby for an expansion of the guest-worker program for agriculture.
It's time for Congress to create a new guest worker program for the agriculture industry where employees can have decent wages, access to health clinics, livable housing, workers comp in case of injury, and legal protection so that they aren't exploited.
For the past 27 years I have served as Program Consultant-Agriculture for the Kentucky Department of Education as well serving as the Director of the Kentucky FFA Leadership Training Center.
There's still disagreement over plans for a new program to bring in agriculture workers, who weren't included in the deal struck between the chamber and AFL-CIO.
"It probably takes off the table the creation and rapid implementation of any major new guest-worker program, " says Craig Regelbrugge of the Agriculture Coalition for Immigration Reform.
Since Texas' refusal of the congressional compromise, Florida and Arizona have applied to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), which administers the program on the federal level, for waivers that would allow them to enact limited pilot programs.
Other involvements include National Agriculture Statistics Service Advisory Committee, Extension Indian Reservation Program Advisory Committee, Indian Land Tenure Foundation Board Member, Chairman of the Agriculture Committee for the National Congress of American Indians and also serves on his local school board.
The growers petitioned the U.S. Department of Agriculture for permission to collect the per-tree tax for a marketing-and-research program.
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The project also helps sari-sari stores gain access to loans, with capital provided by the Center for Agriculture and Rural Development, or CARD, a microfinance institution that has partnered with the Hapinoy program.
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