In the summer of 2019, a crew leader tasked with overseeing farm laborers sent them to harvest corn in a field where they weren’t authorized to work — and where there wasn’t adequate protection from ...

From California to Georgia, farmers can’t find enough workers to harvest their crops or milk their cows. Combined with Congress’s decades-long failure to act on long-promised comprehensive immigration ...

Finding good, reliable and legal workers that you can trust with your cows or driving your sophisticated farm equipment remains a challenge from coast to coast and all parts in between. The Trump ...

It’s no secret that U.S. farmers have been burdened with ongoing labor shortages for years. The pain points of this issue include immigration laws in their current form and a declining interest in ...

The Farm Laborer Wage Board on Friday voted 2-1 to recommend that state Labor Commissioner Roberta Reardon decrease the state’s farm worker weekly overtime threshold to 40 hours per week from 60 hours ...

Recently released agricultural census data showed the number of farmworkers in Washington has dropped dramatically over the last five years. At the same time, the number employed through the H-2A ...

ALBANY — The fate of how many hours a farm laborer can work before qualifying for overtime took a step forward this week during the first of three public hearings on the issue. The three-member Farm ...