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Keep tabs on your employees, machinery and records with help from a location-based application called foursquare.
Four basic business management principles can help drive your farm’s growth.
New online features allow you to get answers to your employment questions.
With faint chances for passage but sure promise for passion, immigration and farm labor legislation will again be debated by Congress in June.
Four finalists have been selected to compete in the inaugural Radicle Automation Challenge for a minimum of $250,000 in investment capital.
A 10-acre hydroponic greenhouse complex and a large potato farming operation in O’Neill, Neb., were two of several agricultural businesses targeted in raids by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
The Produce Marketing Association and United Fresh Produce Association, which jointly launched the Ethical Charter on Responsible Labor Practices, are offering a web seminar as they seek endorsers of the document.
ORLANDO, Fla. — The Equitable Food Initiative hopes that its “Responsibly Grown Farmworker Assured” label will elevate the status of those suppliers in the eyes of the produce buying community.
A court decision could come as soon as early February on a motion for a preliminary injunction against the Department of Labor’s 2019 wage rates for foreign agricultural guest workers.
Tips for weathering the economic downturn. Ag lending: visit banker early, communicate often, keep good records, build cash, negotiate rates. Cash rent renegotiation may be in order. Land price rise may be slowing; what the rent-to-value ratio means. What it costs to hire a college grad. Natural gas price down; fertilizer is a good investment.
Lack of leadership may be the single biggest void in today’s agricultural operations.
As Arizona’s controversial immigration law is set to go into affect tomorrow.
Employee has a heart attack on your farm: Do you need to report it?
Wages paid to dairy farm workers remain essentially unchanged from three years ago En Espanol
Learn how to fairly compensate for farming labor, when family ties are concerned.
The recent Health Care Reform law has created a new tax credit for certain employers who pay for their employee’s health care premiums.
Hiring great employees who make farming more efficient and enjoyable is one of the most important jobs you can do as a manager.
JOD says state’s law is unconstitutional.
Employee has a heart attack on your farm: Do you need to report it?
With summer here, you can save family income and payroll taxes by hiring family members.
Western Growers and the California Farm Bureau, citing issues important to produce growers, are pushing back on Rep. Bob Goodlatte’s AG Act, which the American Farm Bureau Federation is supporting.
Securing adequate labor has been a challenge throughout the California produce industry in recent years, and the labor market tends to get even tighter during the summer.
A partial government shutdown that began Dec. 22 could stretch deep into January and could mean delays and trouble for the H-2A agricultural guest worker program used by produce growers.
Seeking to stop higher 2019 wage rates for the H-2A guest worker program, the National Council of Agricultural Employers has filed a court action against the Department of Labor.