Archive for the "farm labor" Tag

As a record-setting heat wave impacts much of the U.S., farm employees are often on the front lines of brutal outdoor working […]

Dating back to 2011, Cornell University has surveyed more than 100 New York farms to dig deeper into the impacts of the […]

Labor shortages aren’t only impacting restaurants and retail this year, they’re also impacting every sector of the food supply chain. From processors […]

A combination of challenging wet weather in the Southeast where a lot of timber is logged for lumber in the domestic market […]

Technology is changing how farmers manage their operations. It’s also creating demand for new skills and capabilities in the farm workforce. As […]

Though it was first passed by the house in December 2019, the Farm Workhouse Modernization Act was reintroduced last week in the […]

Labor is one of the biggest challenges facing a few sectors of agriculture right now. Recent changes like changing legislation, increased farmer […]

They already work with an extremely tight domestic labor pool, pushing them to hiring workers from abroad via the H-2A Guest Worker […]

Though the COVID-19 pandemic contributed to how light was shed on some of the issues, things like rural infrastructure (including rural broadband), […]