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While political and economic reverberations of the pandemic will rattle the globe for decades to come, how successfully humanity comes out of this pandemic will affect not just health of populations and economies.

Another Congress, another attempt at immigration reform.

You’ve got more than enough on your plate, but you know you need good people to make your business work.

The House of Representatives on March 18 passed H.R. 1603, the Farm Workforce Modernization Act by a 247-174 vote.

No one saw COVID-19 coming, and the disruptions it has created in the produce industry were profound.

With an online survey, The Packer is gathering input on labor conditions produce grower-shippers are experiencing.

Has the time finally arrived for immigration reform?

Washington state agricultural workers will start receiving overtime pay in 2022 and will have a 40-hour workweek by 2024.

Nearly 300 agricultural organizations called on U.S. Senate leaders to “develop and pass” legislation addressing agricultural labor reform.

Equitable Food Initiative, the workforce development and certification organization, announced that the Walmart Foundation has awarded it a new one-year grant of $700,000.