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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Sunday, March 09, 2025
As a result of the H-2A Department of Labor’s rising wage floor, U.S. fruit and vegetable growers find themselves again appealing for a bipartisan solution to the agricultural workforce shortage and temporary fix for the wage rate hikes.
A Labor Department administrative law judge is allowing a farm labor contractor to stay in the H-2A program after finding that he did not fire U.S workers because of their race, but because they refused to work in rainy conditions.
Specialty crop producers and a contract poultry grower used a farm bill listening session in Texas Wednesday to urge lawmakers to provide them with more insurance options, while groups representing other commodities continued their call for reference price increases consistent with inflation.
Farms may be required to pay higher wages to some foreign workers under changes the Labor Department has finalized in the way that H-2A minimum pay rates are calculated.
A federal judge has declined to set aside the Biden administration’s H-2A rule issued last year, rejecting a request for a preliminary injunction sought by the National Council of Agricultural Employers.
In this opinion piece, Missouri farmer Blake Hurst shares the challenges of trying to find and retain qualified workers and why he's now trying to navigate the complex process of bringing temporary workers to his farm.
In this opinion piece, National Pork Producers Council President Terry Wolters says recent efforts to address ag labor shortages did not go far enough and urges the next Congress to expand access to the H-2A program.
Congressional negotiators are nearing agreement on a massive year-end bill that’s expected to include billions in agricultural disaster aid as well as a compromise version of the Growing Climate Solutions Act and special aid to rice growers.
Members of Congress, farm and labor interests joined in support of a new workforce bill that they hope will become a “Christmas miracle” and gain passage before Congress adjourns for the year. But the measure still faces an uphill battle because of timing and opposition from many Republicans.
