Items Tagged with 'Labor'

Agricultural producers appealed to the Senate Ag Committee to reform the H-2A program, which allows agricultural employers to hire foreign workers to fill temporary jobs.

If Congress doesn’t extend or codify the 2017 tax cuts, the U.S. ag industry could shed close to 50,000 jobs amid reduced economic output, a new report says.

In this opinion piece, Rep. Austin Scott, R-Ga., argues that farmers in the Southeast urgently need disaster aid to recover from hurricane damage, especially with the farm bill stalled in Congress.

In this opinion piece, Jon Doggett, former CEO of the National Corn Growers Association, responds to a previous op-ed by Kip Tom and expresses concern about the impact of Donald Trump's policy positions on agriculture.