For nearly a century, the United States has relied on migrant workers to grow and harvest the vegetables and fruits that end up in the country's grocery stores and feed millions of consumers. But the ...

It’s hard to believe, but it is already time to start planning for your 2025 Spring labor needs. As we know, finding, hiring, developing, and retaining adequate labor resources are some of the most ...

Our Agricultural Legislative & Public Policy Team examines another pair of proposed rules that would reform the H-2A program. DOL and DHS assert the rules are intended to protect temporary ...

PALM BEACH COUNTY, Fla. — The crackdown on illegal immigration is spotlighting a federal program that helps bring foreign farmworkers to the United States legally through the H-2A visa program, a way ...

The Department of Labor recently released full fiscal year usage data for the H-2A program. Given agriculture’s ongoing struggle to recruit domestic workers and a very tight U.S. labor market overall, ...

Agricultural employers can now apply for a new competitive grant program to help recruit H-2A workers and improve working conditions as part of a new pilot program launched by USDA. The Farm Labor ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The food that Americans sit down to eat at their dining room table has, over the decades, increasingly been picked, sorted and shipped by seasonal foreign ...

SALEM — Farmers wouldn’t pay unemployment taxes for foreign guestworkers under a bill meant to bring Oregon into line with several other labor-dependent specialty crop states. Because they reside in ...

Farmworkers harvest a field, Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025, in Homestead, Fla. The H-2A program has allowed foreign workers to fill agricultural jobs on a temporary basis for decades. But intense ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. chart visualization For nearly a century, the United States has relied on migrant workers to grow and harvest the vegetables and ...