A pathway to legal status for hundreds of thousands of migrant farmworkers could show up in a must-pass agriculture and nutrition legislative package.
according to USDA data“As many of you know with inflation, our cost of production has done nothing but go up,” said Brody Stapel, the co-owner Double Dutch Dairy. “So, the margin there is zero if not negative on a lot of dairy farms in Wisconsin currently and across the midwest.
That’s why he is asking Congress to help workers like those on his team by passing the Farm Workforce Modernization Act.
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