How many farmworkers are there in the United States?
Due to the seasonal, migratory nature of farm work, it is difficult to provide an exact number of farmworkers in the United States. Government and independent surveys and reports estimate that there are anywhere from two to four million farmworkers and dependants in the US. In 1993 the Commission on Agricultural Workers estimated there were 2.5 million farmworkers in the US, approximately two-thirds of whom were crop workers.1 This would imply that about 1.6 million farmworkers were providing seasonal fieldwork.
