(WASHINGTON, DC) In recent years, farmers, growers, and ranchers throughout the United States have expressed concerns about the challenges of hiring an adequate number of qualified farmworkers at an economically viable wage. A prominent indicator of a tighter farm labor market in the United States is the rising real (inflation-adjusted) wage for farmworkers. Between 2014 and 2018, the average hourly real wage for farmworkers rose from $12.00 to $13.25, an increase of 10.4 percent. This increase in the real wage for farm labor is the fastest experienced over any four-year period during the past two decades and the growth was faster than in nonfarm wages. The hourly real wage for all production workers outside agriculture rose from $21.90 to $22.97, an increase of 3.5 percent.