October 20, 2022
Maitland, FL: Florida’s November tomato crop will be smaller than normal due to the impact of Hurricane Ian, but Florida will remain a significant supplier from [...Read More ]
October 19, 2022
Maitland, FL, October 19, 2022 – Florida’s November tomato crop will be smaller than normal due to the impact of Hurricane Ian, but Florida will remain [...Read More ]
September 8, 2022
Speaking Wednesday at the Florida Tomato Conference in Labelle, Florida, Michael Schadler, manager of the Florida Tomato Committee and executive vice president of the Florida Tomato Exchange, highlighted [...Read More ]
July 12, 2022
Several House Republicans are ratcheting up pressure on Senate colleagues to take action on bipartisan immigrant farmworker legislation the chamber passed last year. Republican Reps. Dan Newhouse (Wash.), Jim [...Read More ]
June 27, 2022
The Florida tomato season is in the books. We asked Michael Schadler, executive vice president of the Florida Tomato Exchange, how the season went and what are [...Read More ]
June 20, 2022
The government’s H-2A program for contracting with agricultural workers from abroad continues to expand in the first two quarters of fiscal year 2022, reports Rural Migration News [...Read More ]
June 15, 2022
U.S. field worker wages are up 9% this year, according to the latest farm labor survey by the USDA. The 28-page report said field workers in April received [...Read More ]
April 13, 2022
American consumers are seeing food prices rise at the fastest rate in decades. Supply chain snarls, labor shortages and climate challenges (plus the conflict in Ukraine) [...Read More ]
December 31, 2021
An export powerhouse that provides much of America’s vegetables, the Mexican produce industry in recent years has followed up on some promised reforms aimed at preventing [...Read More ]