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Growing sweet potatoes is a labor-intensive business

This year, Fyffes completed its first corporate-wide Human Rights Impact Asssessment and published its Global Human Rights Policy and Statement.

CA Grown has been using social media and retail campaigns to promote October as California Farmer and Farmworker Month.

United Fresh and allied food and agricultural organizations are urging both President Trump and President-elect Biden to provide priority access to COVID-19 vaccines as they become available.

The fall crop season is underway in Florida and over the next few months, an increase in the farm worker population will help plant, maintain, and harvest our crops in the Sunshine State.

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.

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.