he is the commissioner of the georgia department of agriculture. he started with the georgia farm bureau. later served as coordinator as the state young farmer program. in addition, he served as president of the georgia agriculture business for 21 years and co- managing the georgia food industry. he earned his bachelor's from the university of georgia. the second witness is mr. paul wenger. he is serving his second term of the california farm bureau federation. he chaired the advisory committee. in 2011, he was appointed to the board. he earned his degree from cal poly. we have lee wicker. he is from the north carolina growers association. the largest program user in the nation. prior to this, he worked for the north carolina security commission. the technical supervisor for the farm programs and state administrator. mr. wicker has been growing tobacco with his family in lee county since 1978. graduated from the university of north carolina at chapel hill. our fourth witness is mr. goldstein. he is president of farm worker justice. he has experience

gary black serves as commissioner of the georgia dealt of agriculture. he began his career with the georgia farm bureau in 1980 as representative. later served as coordinator as the state young farmer program. in addition, he served as president of the georgia agriculture business for 21 years and co-managing the georgia food industry. he earned his bachelor's from the university of georgia. the second witness is mr. paul wenger. he is currently serving his second term as president of the california farm bureau federation. in addition to serving as a member of the federation board, he chaired the water advisory committee. in 2011 he was elected to farm bureau board of directors. he's a third generation farmer and earned his bachelor's degree from cal poly san luis obispo. the next witness worked for north carolina employment security position as a technical supervisor for farm employment programs and stayedwide administrator for the h-2a program. mr. wicker has been growing tobacco with his family in lee county, north carolina, since 1978. graduated from

agriculture work. members of the judiciary subcommittee on immigration heard from farm experts from georgia, california and north carolina. they discussed what to do with agricultural workers in the country illegally. this is about an hour and 20 minutes. >> i'll call to order the subcommittee on the policy and enforcement. today, we have a hearing on regional perspectives on agriculture guest worker programs. good morning to all. today's subcommittee hearing represents our third hearing on the issue of seasonal agricultural labor and guest worker program. this is a complex issue which impacts not only farm workers and agricultural employees, but also u.s. workers and local communities in the united states and the american taxpayer. this is a critical issue to the u.s. agriculture because real world experience has shown that there are simply not enough americans willing to work as migrant farm workers. the labor intensive branch of agriculture, fruits and vegetables and horticulture specialties employs over 1.2 million individual farm workers a year. each year, farm workers are interviewed by the u.s.

agriculture. and i want planning on it, but i couldn't help it, lirich listen the -- georgia is the garden state. people don't think of us that way, but we're also the dense cultural production and land over the years because of housing that's gobbles it up and the development that's gobbles. the whole concept of jersey fresh, which has been pronoted in our state and the idea of trying to have local farmers produce things at small farm markets that exist in a lot of our cities and we can't get enough of it. in fact, for many of the urban areas, it's not just an issue of dietary point of view. as you know, our first lady has been concerned about obesity. part of the issue is trying to get fresh prukts and the urban areas. so in a lot of urban areas, we have a farmers' thing. i don't even have a single farm in my zriblgt that i'm aware of, when is not only the state university but the new jersey. we've done a lot to promote jersey fresh and it's very popular. >>> the too the highest population of asian-indians and in my con -- it's interesting in increasing its gross national product and joining th