Migrant labor was a major topic Wednesday during the 2012 Georgia Ag Forecast program at Georgia Southern University’s Nessmith Lane Building. Agribusiness lawyer Nowell Berreth was keynote speaker for the event and discussed the H-2A program that is “part of the Immigration and Control Act of 1986 that allows supplementing local labor with migrant workers on a temporary seasonal basis,” he said. As it stands, immigrants can stay in the country for 20 months before having to return to their home country, and 33 producers use the program, employing 7,000 workers, he said.