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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.

Farmers who use the H-2A guest worker program are facing COVID-19-related delays in the processing and approval of those workers.

Democratic lawmakers, Farmworker Justice and the Environmental Working Group are pushing for new federal protections for farm and food workers in the next coronavirus stimulus legislation.

Germany may lose up to a third of its seasonal agricultural workers in the wake of reports that it has closed its borders with Bulgaria and Romania.

The Department of State is taking steps to reduce delays in the processing of H-2A workers caused by the COVID-19 crisis.

A lack of labor interest and potential legal and political factors limit the potential of turning to a “gig economy” to decreasing food waste from produce farms.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on April 22 which puts a 60-day pause on immigration into the U.S.

Canada’s government is exempting foreign nationals who have committed to working in agriculture from COVID-19 travel bans.