Agricultural labor was a key topic and for the first time the Georgia Agritourism Association held its annual meeting in conjunction with the 2012 Southeast Regional Fruit & Vegetable Conference, held Jan. 5-8 in Savannah.

The meeting came on the heels of the release of a farm labor study conducted by the Georgia Department of Agriculture, in which the GDA recommended reforms at the federal level to address agricultural labor shortages, which the study indicated were in part due to immigration issues. Agriculture Commissioner Gary Black spoke on Jan. 5 to participants in the conference, reviewing the results of the study. He noted that the Georgia immigration law passed last year has helped prompt dialogue at the national level.

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