National Ag News

The National Pork Producers Council is pleased that a call for reform of the H-2A visa program was included in the administration’s Ag and Rural Prosperity Task Force Report released this week.

Iowa pork producer John Weber, immediate past president of NPPC, says current visa programs, while widely used by U.S. pork producers, are not effectively addressing the labor shortage faced by the industry.

“We have a substantial need for high quality immigrant labor that can come to this country, both in the production phase of pork as well as the processing phase,” Weber says.

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