The lawsuit, filed by the United Farm Workers in the U.S. District Court for Eastern California, challenges a federal wage rule tied to the H-2A agriculture visa program, which allows U.S. employers ...

As mass deportation efforts affected one labor force for farms, DOL boss promised to cut red tape so they could access ...

As the president’s immigration policies squeeze an already tight supply of farm labor, the Trump administration is making it cheaper to hire foreign farmworkers.

The H-2A program, which provides temporary visas for foreign nationals seeking seasonal agricultural jobs on U.S. farms, ...

The Trump administration's immigration crackdown is worsening labor shortages across the U.S. agricultural sector, pushing officials to make it cheaper for farmers to hire temporary foreign workers.

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 ...

With ICE making more arrests of farmworkers and other people in the country illegally, Chris Grobbelaar of Labor Inbound anticipates farmers who lost workers will have gaps to fill. Chris Grobbelaar, ...

(WNDU) - We are entering the season of harvest, and farm owners continue to struggle. As the price of crops — including corn and soybeans — plunged, they’re now facing another challenge: labor ...

Guest workers on the H-2A visa program receive no less than the Adverse Effect Wage Rate set by the federal government. (USDA photo) The Trump administration is making another run at reforming the way ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Local workers I’ve interviewed in Washington state in the past year say they don’t blame H-2A workers for coming to work on farms; ...