Is an employer better off trying to recruit workers at the orchard or bringing in guest workers through the federal H-2A program? Dave Allan at Yakima Valley Orchards in Yakima, Washington, hired a University of Washington economics student to crunch the numbers and come up with an answer. “It seems to us that wages will be going up. There seems to be a scarcity of workers, especially for harvest. Should we start to look at the H-2A program, or should we not look at it and see if we can compete with wages and have enough people to harvest?” Allan […]