Vilsack promotes Farm Labor Stabilization and Protection pilot program – Voice Of Muscatine


Vilsack promotes Farm Labor Stabilization and Protection pilot program

USDA is offering a potential short-term ag labor solution as Congress remains gridlocked on immigration. 

During a stop Tuesday in northeast Iowa to announce grant funding for a local beef processor, Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack said producers can sign up for a farm worker pilot program.

“It’s a $65 million program, and it’s a relatively small effort obviously in comparison to the size of the problem, but it’s our effort to essentially show how something could work along the lines of the Ag Worker Modernization Act.”

He tells Brownfield the initiative provides a set of grants to ag employers willing to hire skilled immigrant workers from countries including El Salvador, Honduras, and Mexico.

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