While farmers have been mostly supportive of aid to help offset tariff costs, many are pointing to a different economic ...

Farm labor reform remains one of the big topics in the agricultural sector but that doesn’t mean that changes to the system will come easily. United States Senator Chuck Grassley ...

Farmworker and grower groups are battling over the future of the H-2A program, as the Trump administration seeks to lower wages and provide relief to farmers who have complained for years about rising ...

From California to Georgia, farmers can’t find enough workers to harvest their crops or milk their cows. Combined with Congress’s decades-long failure to act on long-promised comprehensive immigration ...

After meeting for almost nine months, the House Agricultural Labor Working Group has put out a roadmap to ease a farm labor crisis. It’s an issue that has been coming up more and more at roundtables ...

YAKIMA, Wash. - Legal advocates for employees and employers are engaged in a public debate over whether the state Farm Labor Contractor Act is serving its original purpose to protect employees, or if ...

Concerns about labor shortages in the U.S. continue to grow in 2021. The June Ag Barometer from Purdue University found nearly two-thirds (66%) of respondents said they either had “some” or “a lot of ...

Farming, as we know, is labor intensive, especially during planting and harvest season. Strong labor management and leadership skills are required to run a successful farming operation. Good, reliable ...

Operation Blooming Onion is among the largest criminal prosecutions of labor trafficking of foreign farmworkers. Cogdell Berry Farm hired labor contractors whose Georgia homes were searched, money ...

Editor’s Note: Cristina L.H. Traina is a Public Voices Op Ed fellow and professor at Northwestern University, where she is a scholar of social ethics. She says Labor Dept. rules allow kids to work ...

The Mexican government has raided at least three squalid, makeshift farm labor camps in recent weeks, rescuing about 250 adults and children and posting videos of the operations — rare enforcement ...

North America’s largest produce industry groups have unveiled a plan aimed at ridding abusive labor conditions from supply chains, in a closely watched effort prompted by growing demand from consumers ...