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  • Adverse Effect Wage Rate

    Maoyong Zheng

    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)

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  • H-2A Trends and Updates

    Maoyong Zheng

    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…

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  • Across the Southern border: Migrant labor on Georgia farms

    Maoyong Zheng

    Across the Southern border: Migrant labor on Georgia farms | CAES Newswire (uga.edu)

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  • Southern SARE Project Report

    Ashley Williams

    SARE Project LS23-387:   “Labor Demands and Hiring Practices of Southern Cattle-Dairy Farmers under H-2A Program’s Current Guidelines and Proposed Modifications”

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