Michigan restaurant sales were up in the second quarter of 2018, but there are rising concerns about wage inflation and a ballot proposal to hike the minimum wage.
Securing adequate labor has been a challenge throughout the California produce industry in recent years, and the labor market tends to get even tighter during the summer.
(UPDATED, May 25) Trump administration officials with the departments of State, Agriculture, Labor, and Homeland Security have vowed to modernize the H-2A agricultural guest worker visa program.
Georgia fruit and vegetable growers enter their spring and summer growing season with a sense of optimism, said Charles Hall, executive director of the Georgia Fruit & Vegetable Growers Association.
Just as immigration reform continues to elude lawmakers in Washington, D.C., a stable workforce continues to elude grower-shippers in California’s Salinas Valley.
The Argentinean Blueberry Committee and other members of Argentina’s fruit industry support efforts to prevent child labor, and a group of producers visited a child care facility that helps with that goal.
Busted for providing substandard housing to vegetable field workers in Monterey County in 2017, a California farm labor contractor will pay $162,082 in Department of Labor penalties.
Western Growers and the California Farm Bureau, citing issues important to produce growers, are pushing back on Rep. Bob Goodlatte’s AG Act, which the American Farm Bureau Federation is supporting.
The Colorado Fruit and Vegetable Growers Association is inviting technology startup companies to make pitches to attendees of the group’s fourth annual conference.
Industry leaders from the Canadian Produce Marketing Association and the Canadian Horticultural Council met with parliamentarians and civil servants Nov. 7-8 in Ottawa.
