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 ...

As Congress revisits the nation’s agricultural safety net, Congressman Glenn “G.T.” Thompson (R-PA-15), Chairman of the House Agriculture Committee, is signaling that farm labor reform will soon take ...

As Congress turns from passing a long-delayed farm bill to the next major policy fight, Republican lawmakers are signaling ...

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 ...

Finding good, reliable and legal workers that you can trust with your cows or driving your sophisticated farm equipment remains a challenge from coast to coast and all parts in between. The Trump ...

It’s no secret that U.S. farmers have been burdened with ongoing labor shortages for years. The pain points of this issue include immigration laws in their current form and a declining interest in ...

ALBANY — State officials recently finalized the process for farm laborers to be entitled to be paid overtime for work over 40 hours per week, which is to be phased in over the next decade and buoyed ...

Marco is an H-2A visa immigrant farm laborer employed by Fresh Harvest on April 28, 2020 in Salinas, California. Fresh Harvest is the one of the largest employers of people using the H-2A temporary ...

Recently released agricultural census data showed the number of farmworkers in Washington has dropped dramatically over the last five years. At the same time, the number employed through the H-2A ...