Human Resources
Dave Puglia is succeeding Tom Nassif, who is retiring after 18 years as the president and CEO of Western Growers.
Both wages and the number of farm labor workers are up compared with a year ago.
(UPDATED, Nov. 21) Bipartisan farmworker immigration legislation has cleared its first hurdle, passing by voice vote in the House Judiciary Committee Nov. 20.
The National Potato Council will host a press conference at the U.S. Capitol on Feb 26 to urge the U.S. Senate to take up legislation to solve the agricultural labor crisis.
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.
The produce industry has been working to help feed families during the COVID-19 pandemic in a number of ways.
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.
Companies, trade associations and other groups continue to offer help during the COVID-19 crisis, whether it’s a program to help feed people in an uncertain economic period or helping farmworkers stay safe.
As fall apple season gears up in the orchards and packing houses, growers, shippers and marketers are concerned about the domino effects of the coronavirus on employees and productivity.
Growing sweet potatoes is a labor-intensive business
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.
Misionero, Gonzales, Calif., has received Equitable Food Initiative certification for its processing facility in Gonzales.
Just how vulnerable is our food supply?
Testing of an unknown number of watermelon harvesters in three north Florida counties revealed that three out of four were positive for COVID-19, Florida health officials told industry leaders.
A free recruitment tool has been launched for U.S. growers and farm labor contractors.
More than 30 produce industry organizations are asking Congress for more resources for growers to protect their workforce against COVID-19.
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.
Blame it on the coronavirus.
Employer and worker advocate groups disagree over solutions as COVID-19 outbreaks escalate at farms and packinghouses while summer harvests kick into high gear.
A Windsor-Essex County, Canada, health official used an Ontario statute to order a farm to take workers off the job and self-isolate after at least 191 of them at a greenhouse tested positive for COVID-19.