COVID-19导致美国农场主很难雇佣到劳动力

新型冠状病毒影响了H-2A农业工人移民的到来，而美国农业很依赖这种可以在美国农场一次性呆几个月工作的工人。一般H-2A签证的发放会是10月到3月，目前为止发放给农业设备操作员的H-2A签证数量增加到10798个，这是寻找劳动力的典型雇佣期，因为他们正好可以从5月份开始收割小麦。但是雇工难是今年让美国农场主头疼的问题。农场主Doug Zink说：“我们很难让外国工人来这里，因为他们根本坐不到飞机。” 不同于移民工人，美国本地工人很难找，就算招聘到也很快就离职了。美国是世界第三大小麦出口国，小麦在疫情期间的需求量很大，持续的劳动力短缺也可能会影响到9月份开始的大豆和玉米收成。

The novel coronavirus delayed the arrival of seasonal immigrants who normally help harvest U.S. wheat，typically counts on migrants for about 30% of those kind of workers. The most common visa for migrant agriculture workers is the H-2A, which allows workers to stay in the United States for months at a time to work on farms. The number of H-2A visas granted for agriculture equipment operators rose to 10,798 from October through March, the typical hiring period for harvesters looking for a labor force that starts cutting wheat in May. Farmers and harvesting companies are having a hard time finding and keeping workers. Doug Zink said，"We had a lot of trouble getting our foreign workers over here," he said，they could not get flights.” The United States is the world's No. 3 exporter of wheat, a crop in high demand during the pandemic. A sustained labor shortage could impact the soy and corn harvests that start in September.  source

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