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Nature Fresh Farms has released a twenty-two-minute documentary offering an inside look at their operations during the Covid-19 outbreak centering around the experiences of their guest workers.

The fight continues over wage rates in the Department of Labor’s H-2A agricultural guest worker program.

California is looking to build on the success of the Grower Shipper Association of Central California’s quarantined housing program with an expanded statewide effort.

At the Fresh Produce Industry Discussion Group on LinkedIn, I offered a poll question that states, “As a produce professional, what is your biggest worry?”

The 46th Annual Agricultural Labor Relations Forum will be online.

UPDATED: Stabilizing labor costs and adding more predictability, the Department of Labor’s H-2A wage rule is winning industry support.

The status of the 2021 H-2A program wage rates is up in the air again.

Fresh produce grower groups and industry associations are praising the reintroduction of the Farm Workforce Modernization Act, H.R. 1537.

As Central California vegetable growers wait for harvest to increase seasonally, the biggest issue at hand is getting their workers vaccinated as they enter year two of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Department of Labor has published a long-expected final rule that the agency said will modernize the H-2A guest agricultural worker program.