You not only need access to a stable workforce, government workers need an education on the importance of agriculture.

Holdups at the border and other legalities have reduced the number of necessary workers on the East and West Coasts.

With the possibility of saving money on inputs and labor, UF/IFAS researchers focus to find immature fruit faster.

If you want to implement labor-saving mechanization, you should start the conversation with the end user – your employees.

Labor management is much more than just delegation.

Just ask any grower who has placed a help wanted ad.

We need a guest worker program if we’re going to feed America and ensure our national security.

Ball State University research shows many of the agricultural migrant workers of the past just aren’t migrating any more.

Agency calls for swifter processing of paperwork so growers’ requests for crews can be met.

It’s no coincidence that more than half the full-time vineyard workers at McManis Family Vineyards have been with the company for 20-plus years.

State is the first in the country to bring minimum wage to $15 per hour for businesses with 26 or more employees.

Mobile-responsive design to aid in growing use on smartphones, tablets, and laptops in the field.

Growers can’t afford to dabble in feel-good ideas from people who don’t understand agriculture when a crop must be harvested today
or lost tomorrow.

In phase one of what it hopes will be a series of trials, Grimmway Farms experimented with the […]

Water. Labor. Affordable land. Transportation costs. As a vegetable grower, you face challenges like these every year — […]

EPA is announcing stronger protections for the nation’s 2 million agricultural workers and their families working on farms, […]

UF/IFAS-led initiatives putting more locally grown food on the table at fraction of the cost.

With temperatures soaring into the triple digits, union organizers are focusing on heat illness regulations.

  According to a news story in the Yakima News Herald, the state Supreme Court of Washington unanimously […]