Guest workers becoming more and more important to Washington Farmers

Capital Press reported on July 30 that Washington's farm workforce of guest workers may rise from about 19,000 in 2017 to 30,000 in 2018. 

Numerous comments from farmers and processors in this report make it clear that domestic workers are simply not available as they were before, making the very expensive H2A program the only option left to keep the fruit coming.

Almost all the guest workers are hired in Eastern Washington.