Bipartisan Farm Workforce Bill Leads With Legalization Program

Farm Workforce Modernization Act offers legal status, tech upgrades, and wage stability for farmworkers and growers alike

WASHINGTON — As the nation’s grocery prices fluctuate and fields sit untended across, a quietly mounting emergency has forced lawmakers back to the negotiating table: the collapse of America’s agricultural labor supply.

This month, a bipartisan group in Congress reintroduced the Farm Workforce Modernization Act, a comprehensive immigration and labor bill that seeks to keep farms operating by offering a path to legal status for undocumented farmworkers and modernizing the H-2A guestworker visa program.