A consistent message from farm groups nationwide is that labor is a No. 1 issue in the agricultural economy. Jeremy Foltz is a professor of agricultural and applied economics at UW-Madison. Through the UW Dairy Innovation Hub, Foltz’s team has been surveying farms across the state to understand where workers are coming from and why farms struggle with hiring.
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