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After 164 migrant workers at an Ontario asparagus farm tested positive for COVID-19 about halfway through harvest season, farm leaders worked with the local health department to contain the spread.

Recommendations on protecting agriculture workers from exposure to the coronavirus have been issued by the U.S. government.

The first session of Stronger Together U.S.’s responsible recruitment webinar series explores how to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic.

More than 60 specialty crop organizations sent a letter to Congressional leaders highlighting efforts by growers and other agricultural employers to protect their labor force during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The value of strong relationships between farmworkers and management has never been greater, Peter O’Driscoll and Vic Smith believe.

From salads to mangoes and broccoli rabe, produce companies are stressing the need to eat healthfully during the pandemic.

Equitable Food Initiative, Washington, D.C., has promoted Kenton Harmer to a new position at the organization, managing director.

More than 235 employees of Dole’s salad processing plant in Springfield, Ohio, tested positive for COVID-19.

President Trump’s latest move to extend the suspension of certain visas through the end of the year won’t affect the H-2A guest agricultural worker program, Richard Owen says.

Labor is a top concern when it comes to the effects of the new coronavirus on Georgia’s produce industry — besides worker safety and customer demand.