The chairs and ranking members of Congress’ ag committees said reforming the H-2A visa program is front and center for 2026.

Farm labor advocates are calling on the Biden administration to focus enforcement efforts on violations of labor laws that occur during and after recruitment of farmworkers to pick crops in the U.S.

YAKIMA, Wash. - Legal advocates for employees and employers are engaged in a public debate over whether the state Farm Labor Contractor Act is serving its original purpose to protect employees, or if ...

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 ...

Farming, as we know, is labor intensive, especially during planting and harvest season. Strong labor management and leadership skills are required to run a successful farming operation. Good, reliable ...

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 ...

A Kennewick contractor has been fined a quarter of a million dollars for mistreatment of farmworkers. Kennewick-based farm labor contractor Harvest Plus LLC housed farmworkers in unhealthy living ...

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 ...

The Farm Laborer Wage Board on Friday voted 2-1 to recommend that state Labor Commissioner Roberta Reardon decrease the state’s farm worker weekly overtime threshold to 40 hours per week from 60 hours ...