With the start of the winter wheat harvest just weeks away, U.S. harvesters are struggling to get the foreign workers they usually rely on to run their combines.
FILE - In this June 15, 2018 photo, winter wheat is harvested in a field farmed by Dalton and Carson North near McCracken, Kan. With the start of the winter wheat harvest just weeks ago, U.S. custom harvesters are having problems getting into the country the foreign workers they usually rely on to run their combines.
“It will definitely have a big impact on our finances ... if we can't get help to run our equipment,” Keimig said. Temporary agricultural worker H-2A visas have been largely spared from immigration rollbacks because agriculture is an essential industry, but the workers can't travel to the U.S. right now because of the restrictions imposed to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, Sieren said.
“There are more people overseas really that have an interest and still a working knowledge of agriculture,” he said.
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