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California is looking to build on the success of the Grower Shipper Association of Central California’s quarantined housing program with an expanded statewide effort.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has updated the farmers.gov website with features designed to help growers hire workers through the H-2A program.
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.
The 236-191 vote today goes beyond Republicans’ pledge to reverse the president’s November orders shielding about 5 million people in the U.S. from deportation.
Britain’s farmers rely on foreign workers to pick strawberries and raise chickens. Brexit puts that model at risk.
If President Donald Trump’s hardline stance on illegal immigration leads to large-scale deportations, among those hurt could be the U.S. economy.
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The labor situation for U.S. agriculture has only worsened in recent years.
Across America’s orchards and crop fields, a shrinking supply of migrants has already driven pay up faster than in the broader workforce. President Donald Trump’s immigration policy may turbocharge that trend.
Decline of immigrant labor has spurred agricultural automation.
Officials in Vermont are looking at how to adress farm labor in the state should immigration policies change under the Trump administration.
As you prepare for what could be a financially challenging year, investing in the people who work on your operation will pay dividends.
A California farmer says Donald Trump’s campaign vow to deport millions of immigrants who are in the country illegally pushed him into buying more equipment, cutting the number of workers he’ll need during the next harvest. Others in California’s farming industry say Trump’s tough campaign talk targeting immigrants in the country illegally, including a vast number of farmworkers, spurred them into action, too.
With all of the things to do on a dairy on a given day, it is obvious that you can’t do everything on your own, and neither can your managers. Effective delegation makes for efficient completion of tasks and a more productive work environment.
Hundreds of mushroom industry growers, business leaders and researchers will gather in Orlando, Fla., Feb. 14-16 for the 25th North American Mushroom Conference.
Rouge River Farms, a sweet corn grower in Florida, Georgia, Virginia and Ontario, has all of its U.S. operations certified by the Equitable Food Initiative.
Farm labor floats to the top of all fresh produce concerns, and thus any report that takes a comprehensive look at the issue is worth exploring.
Equitable Food Initiative has created a free responsible recruitment scorecard, available in English and Spanish.
Drawing broad bipartisan and industry support, House lawmakers on Oct. 30 introduced the Farm Workforce Modernization Act.
Beyond adding new companies to the program and a big influx of financial support, the Equitable Food Initiative has made a difference in 2019, the organization’s leaders believe.
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.
“They tend to be really good hard-working people. I would love to see them have a path to citizenship.”
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Number found working illegally nearly triples in three years.
If it becomes law, it would put California at the forefront nationally of farm labor pay and mark a victory in the fight to improve farmworkers’ rights in a decade’s old movement launched by Cesar Chavez.
The death of meaningful U.S. immigration reform, done in by Washington partisanship and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s incendiary comments on foreigners, is leaving crops withering in the field and the farm lobby with nowhere to turn as a labor shortage intensifies.