A recent survey by Texas A and M University shows the importance of immigrant labor to the dairy industry. It indicates 51-percent of the workforce on U.S. dairy farms are immigrant workers. South Dakota Dairy Producers Association President Marv Post says that’s why they continue to pressure Congress to pass an immigration reform bill.
He says immigration reform is needed for several sectors of agriculture, but for dairy the need is greater.
The Texas A and M study shows dairies employing immigrant labor produce 79-percent of the milk in the country. Post says that’s a huge figure.
The Texas survey was commissioned by the National Milk Producers Federation.
