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 ]