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Keeping Good Records a Necessity for Farms With H-2A Labor

By Mary Hightower

For agriculture operations employing foreign labor under the H-2A visa program, keeping good records is paramount, said William Mencer, an ag law attorney and farmer from Lake Village.

Mencer, a fourth-generation farmer whose family grows rice, cotton, corn and soybeans, was the guest speaker for Wednesday’s National Agricultural Law Center webinar “Ag Labor Pointers & Pitfalls for Farming Operations.”

“We’ve participated in the H-2A program since the 1980s,” he said. “So, it's something that we've always had to pay attention to in our operation.

Source : uada.edu

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