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The National Potato Council welcomed today\u2019s action by the House Appropriations Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Subcommittee<\/a> to pass a Fiscal Year 2025 bill that includes language to reduce the H-2A Adverse Effect Wage Rate (AEWR) to the 2023 level and freeze that rate for two years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe appreciate the recognition by so many members of Congress of the significant impact of the unpredictable increases in the AEWR on growers across the country,\u201d said NPC President and Colorado potato grower Bob Mattive. \u201cNo business can successfully operate when confronted by volatile and chaotic changes in labor rates, and we shouldn\u2019t expect our nation\u2019s food producers to be burdened by these annual uncertainties.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe thank Reps. Mike Simpson (R-Idaho) and John Moolenaar (R-Mich.) for their support during the Subcommittee process, and Reps. Bill Huizenga (MI), Dan Kildee (D-Mich), Rick Crawford (R-Ark.), and Don Davis (D-N.C.) for leading a bipartisan letter signed by 120 House members calling for an H-2A visa guestworker wage freeze,\u201d said Dean Gibson, NPC Vice President of Legislative Affairs and Idaho potato grower. \u201cWe appreciate Congress for addressing how AWER changes are stressing family farms seeking to use the H-2A program and urge continued support for this language as the bill moves through the House and Senate.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today\u2019s Subcommittee action comes on the heels of a bipartisan May 2024 letter<\/a> signed by 120 House Members that was sent to House Appropriations leaders requesting an H-2A visa guestworker wage freeze in the FY25 appropriations process. The authors noted that the AEWR has more than doubled since 2005, making agricultural labor and its products more unaffordable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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