Agricultural employers, already facing challenges to recruit enough workers, could be forced to depend even more on an imperfect and costly visa program called H-2A. About 80% of all farmworkers ...

Assemblymember Ash Kalra (D-San José) introduced Assembly Bill 1362, which would require that all foreign labor recruiters ...

This Week on the Farm, we delve into the H-2A Visa Program, which allows Old Mission Peninsula farmers to bring in foreign ...

Idaho’s agriculture industry has faced labor shortages, and the country’s immigration system has for decades heard calls for reform. Now, two Idaho lawmakers are attempting to find a state-specific ...

The H-2A program, while far from perfect, keeps American farms running by providing a reliable workforce when local labor simply isn’t available.

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.

While the H-2A visa program has grown, it only covers seasonal work and cannot replace year-round jobs at meat processing plants and on dairy and pork farms. “Our packing plants need labor.

A Michigan State Greenhouse Extension Educator provides labor insights for floriculture industry stakeholders and policy ...