farmworkers
Equitable Food Initiative (EFI) is showing how workers who work at "employers of choice" family-focused operations can help ease worker shortages.
With back to school underway, employees may be fee...
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Agricultural employers can begin to apply for a pilot program designed to address workforce challenges farmers and ranchers face.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is providing up to $65 ...
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The U.S. House Agriculture Committee has created a bipartisan Agricultural Labor Working Group and is asking growers of specialty crops and other commodities to complete an online survey.
The commi...
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The National Council of Agricultural Employers (NCAE) has opened registration for the 10th annual Ag Labor Forum.
The event is scheduled for Nov. 29 – Dec. 1 at the M Resort outside of Las Vegas,...
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Farmworker and legal organizations have filed a federal lawsuit challenging Florida’s new anti-immigrant law, Senate Bill 1718.
The groups, including the Southern Poverty Law Center, American Civ...
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Equitable Food Initiative (EFI) has recently received recognition for video presentations that shine the light on the plight of U.S. farmworkers.
EFI, the farmworker rights organization, won two Te...
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Georgia senators recognize Farmworker Awareness Week, March 25-31, by passing a resolution that was introduced by several senators.
Sen. Sam Watson, co-owner of Chill C Farms, Moultrie, spoke about...
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