Previously, the loans were limited to housing for American citizens or permanent residents. The loan deadline is in August.

The vast majority of crew leaders and contractors are decent people. But ultimately, you must ensure that what you think is happening on your farm truly is happening.

Vista Santa Rosa Inc., cited for failing to provide 1,374 seasonal farmworkers in California with final paychecks in timely manner.

Now British strawberry growers, struggling to find enough workers, are scaling back production.

Supervisor training and better communication can help ensure fair treatment of laborers.

The laborious process is problematic for users, but it’s the only game in town that delivers legal workers.

Decision in Washington impacts $10 billion agricultural industry and more than 100,000 fieldworkers in the state.

The needs continue to grow while the pool from which to draw from continues to dwindle. All the while, fresh fruit needs to be picked.

While it’s easy to write about labor from your perspective, here are a couple of things H-2A workers would like you to know.

The lack of labor can bite you when you least expect it, but planning ahead and avoiding some mistakes can help you transition more smoothly to the legal guest worker program.

With robots, artificial intelligence, and machine vision showing up on the farm, the game of growing could be about to radically change.

Things like benefits, wages, and housing determine if a worker is willing to even consider working for you. But how they are treated once they sign on will determine if they will stick with you or not.

Tanimura & Antle consistently comes up with smart ways to keep employees on board.

Knowing the difference between an immigration audit and raid can save you money and stress.

Start planning for a world where there won’t be just a shortage of laborers who helped make America’s tree fruit industry remarkable – there will be virtually zero.

Gerawan Farming, one of the largest stone fruit growers in the U.S., will appeal a ruling by California’s highest court on the imposition of what it considers an unreasonable labor contract.

As lawmakers continue to debate ag labor reform, farmers must deal with the growing reality of a dwindling workforce and crops going unharvested because of it.

It’s been a long time since significant immigration reform that will help American growers has passed Congress. The […]

The Ag Worker Act must make it past the Judiciary Committee to have a chance of making it to the House floor.