There are serious consequences to not fixing the agriculture labor crisis. Many farmers simply couldn’t produce the food we all enjoy without a labor force. American Farm Bureau President Zippy Duvall explained the implications in a letter to the editor published in the Wall Street Journal.
President Duvall wrote, "The Labor Department acknowledges a reality that the political extremes willfully ignore: Americans prefer other jobs over the hard work of farming. As a requirement of visa programs, farmers must advertise their available jobs, but fewer than 1% are ever filled by an American. Thousands of positions go unfilled, which means apples go unpicked and tomatoes rot in fields.
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