H-2A Trends and Updates
- Across the Southern Border: Migrant labor on Georgia farms (UGA-CAES Newswire)
- Expanded rights coming for Georgia migrant farmworkers (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
- Sectoral and Regional Concentration of H-2A Patronage (Southern Ag Today)
- The South as the Nation’s Primary Regional Employer of H-2A Labor (Southern Ag Today)
- Reforming the H-2A Guest Farmworker Visa Program: Sectoral Coverage Expansion and Workers’ Path to Permanent Residency (southernagtoday.org)
- Who’s using H-2A and where? (farmprogress.com)
- South emerges as primary regional employer of H-2A labor (farmprogress.com)
- The South as the Nation’s Primary Regional Employer of H-2A Labor (southernagtoday.org)
- Across the Southern Border: Migrant labor on Georgia farms (UGA-CAES Newswire)
Adverse Effect Wage Rate
- Social and Business Implications of the 2023 Increase in Adverse Effect Wage Rates (Southern Ag Today)
- Increased worker wages cost Ga. farmers an estimated $100 million in 2023 (Atlanta Journal Constitution)
- New Rules for the Calculation of H-2A Workers’ Wages (southernagtoday.org)
Presentations
- Contributed paper, NC 1177 Regional Hatch Group in Agricultural Finance, Annual Meeting, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, S. R. Acharya (presenting author) and C.L. Escalante. “Does the Adverse Effect Wage Rate Adversely Affect H-2A Hiring Decisions?” October 13, 2023.
- Escalante, C.L (Panelist and Speaker), Conference on Economics of Inequity in Agriculture, Food, and Environmental Systems, sponsored by AAEA and AJAE, University of Minnesota. “Economics of Inequity: Issues Affecting the Socially and Financially Disadvantaged.” May 24, 2023.
- Escalante, C.L. (Keynote Speaker) 11th annual Rod Nilsestuen Legacy Event, University of Wisconsin – River Falls, “Immigration, Farm Labor, and Health Repercussions.” March 23, 2023.