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.

On Monday, Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) introduced his Agricultural Guestworker Act of 2017 bill, which would replace H-2A with an H-2C program. Rep. Goodlatte introduced the bill to the House Judiciary Committee, which he chairs.

Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R VA) is re-introducing a bill that aims to replace H-2A. Here are some of the ways it will differ from the current program.

Money raised will benefit Redlands Christian Migrant Association’s efforts to aid families in need.

Technology could be on cusp of fixing labor problems for growers of crops that are traditionally hand harvested.

Now is the time to lobby for ways to attract American labor. One idea? Offer college tuition and student loan forgiveness in exchange for farm work.

Move broadens use of H-2A to all of agriculture to include those with multiple crops and harvests.

The agricultural labor shortage is strong enough that the consumer press is beginning to report on it regularly. Here are the stories making headlines this month.

Competition for skilled farm labor is fierce in the West. But Nunes Vegetables, Inc. believes when growers work together, they will attract more workers to their community.

Michigan apple grower says agriculture’s future depends on Farm Bill funding.