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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A foreign farmworker picks apples in Orondo, Wash., last year before the coronavirus pandemic. Washington farmers have applied to fill a record number of jobs with H-2A workers. Farmworker unions and ...

Farm groups appealed to the Senate Agriculture Committee on Wednesday for reforms to the H-2A visa program, which allows agricultural employers to hire foreign workers to fill temporary jobs. “We are ...

Monica De La Cruz told a McAllen crowd Monday she is hunting for ways to open legal work lanes for migrant construction ...

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 ...

In June, the Attorney General’s Office filed a lawsuit against Cornerstone Ranches alleging it had laid off and reduced hours ...