Growers who use the H-2A program are pleased with the Trump administration’s new rule simplifying the program but in some ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For nearly a century, the United States has relied on migrant workers to grow and harvest the vegetables and fruits that end up in ...

Cattle industry representatives say they need more workers. They hope expanding a foreign labor program will help. Finding ...

As labor shortages persist in the ag industry, many farms might be looking at using the H-2A and H-2B programs. Megan Wright, senior director of business expansion at másLabor, recently joined an Ag ...

Agricultural employers can now apply for a new competitive grant program to help recruit H-2A workers and improve working conditions as part of a new pilot program launched by USDA. The Farm Labor ...

SALEM — Farmers wouldn’t pay unemployment taxes for foreign guestworkers under a bill meant to bring Oregon into line with several other labor-dependent specialty crop states. Because they reside in ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The food that Americans sit down to eat at their dining room table has, over the decades, increasingly been picked, sorted and shipped by seasonal foreign ...

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Farmworkers harvest a field, Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025, in Homestead, Fla. The H-2A program has allowed foreign workers to fill agricultural jobs on a temporary basis for decades. But intense ...

For nearly a century, the United States has relied on migrant workers to grow and harvest the vegetables and fruits that end up in the country's grocery stores and feed millions of consumers. But the ...