Labor
EFI honors farmworkers through awareness week
Equitable Food Initiative (EFI) is celebrating National Farmworker Awareness Week by encouraging everyone in the agricultural supply chain, including government entities and consumers, to share messages of appreciation for farmworkers. The commemorative week is scheduled... more »
North American strawberry conference sees high turnout
This year’s gathering of strawberry industry professionals attending the North American Strawberry Symposium (NASS) and North American Strawberry Growers Association (NASGA) annual meeting was successful and mostly finished ahead of the “atmospheric river” of torrential... more »
USDA session tackles H-2A, labor shortages
To combat increasing labor shortages, growers are adapting labor-saving technology and modifying their cultivation practices, including lessening and delaying pruning and weeding. The gravity of the crisis was highlighted in a session at the Feb.... more »
Topcon Agriculture launches transplanting technology
Topcon Agriculture has introduced a navigation system designed to reduce labor, boost efficiency and increase production. Transplanting Control provides global navigation satellite system (GNSS) based guidance, autosteering and control, benefitting producers of permanent and perennial... more »
Prepare for inevitable H-2A audit
In the waning days of the lame-duck session of Congress, there was still hope in some corners of the fruit and vegetable industry that legislators would include immigration and ag labor in the omnibus bill.... more »
USDA Fruit and Vegetable Industry Advisory Committee meeting scheduled
USDA schedules Fruit and Vegetable Industry Advisory Committee meeting The U.S. Department of Agriculture has scheduled the next meeting of the Fruit and Vegetable Industry Advisory Committee. The committee, which studies issues facing the fruit... more »
DOL issues H-2A wage rule, ag groups voice displeasure
The Department of Labor issued its new rule for determining wages for ag workers in the H-2A temporary visa program, and industry groups were quick to voice their displeasure with the new rule. The National... more »
Equipment dealers’ group launches online forum
The North American Equipment Dealers Association (NAEDA) has launched a members-only dealer engagement platform, www.naedacommunity.com. The social and communications platform will provide a central place for equipment dealers to connect, collaborate, learn and share. NAEDA, Kansas... more »
