The Salinas Valley in California has a high demand for farm workers, but very few options for housing. Tanimura & Antle decided it needed to change that for its employees.

Meet Bill Spiller, a grower whose labor challenges reflect the same as his peers. His solutions, however, are his own.

Rare coastal heatwave also hammers berry crops; early estimates of blueberry crop loss run 30% to 40%.

Harvesting challenges reflect growers’ increasing move to mechanized options.

Despite a change in president, it seems momentum for moving the proverbial needle on an adequate ag workforce could be mired in politics like in the past.

But a coalition of business groups says the new Cal/OSHA regulations ‘do not ensure that the economy can roar back.’

Farmworkers living in licensed housing facilities in the state found to be three times safer than workers living in local communities.

In its first ag labor report of the 2021 growing season, USDA reports agriculture worker spring wages increased about a dollar an hour over 2020.

The bill would address long-standing problems and has bipartisan support. But it needs grower support to counter a strong opposition.

American Fruit Grower Editor David Eddy says honoring those in the field is the right thing to do ― for all of agriculture.

Governor is reopening state for all vaccinated employees ― except farm workers. Find out why.

With 20,000 guestworkers arriving, farm leaders had filed a temporary restraining order over the state’s unwillingness to make science-based adjustments.

Aided by the Washington Tree Fruit Research Commission, the ambitious initiative aims to accelerate ag automation by 50% in a single decade.

In 2015, United Farm Workers (UFW) came onto Cedar Point Nursery, a strawberry operation located on the California […]

The U.S. has a long history of newcomers facing overwhelming odds but succeeding in planting long-lasting roots.

An initiative in California is taking vaccines to the fields, targeting an immigrant work force — many undocumented — that is at high risk for COVID-19.

Though most businesses have coronavirus-related policies for employees, customers, and visitors, few have a plan to manage the arrival of a vaccine.

The first half of the California Fresh Fruit Association’s Top 10 list for 2021 is dominated by water- and labor-related issues.

OptumServe site at Reedley College will begin to provide 420 vaccinations daily.