Specialty crop growers are searching for ways to stay in business as rising labor costs threaten their viability.

“These problems have been caused by government and only government can help fix them.”

Michigan Asparagus Marketing Advisory Board executive director Jamie Clover Adams tells Brownfield the true cost to farmers employing H-2A guest workers is about $28 per hour in the state when also accounting for housing and transportation.

“These workers work hard, and they earn what they make,” she says.  

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