Growers who use the H-2A program are pleased with the Trump administration’s new rule simplifying the program but in some ...

Demand for ag labor through the H-2A temporary visa program in Illinois and the nation continues to rise. During fiscal year 2025, 559 more positions were certified in Illinois over fiscal 2024, ...

Cattle industry representatives say they need more workers. They hope expanding a foreign labor program will help. Finding ...

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Farmworkers harvest a field, Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025, in Homestead, Fla. The H-2A program has allowed foreign workers to fill agricultural jobs on a temporary basis for decades. But intense ...

The U.S. agricultural industry depends on undocumented immigrants, but President Trump’s immigration crackdown is further depleting an already tight workforce. The labor crisis may be setting the ...

(WNDU) - We are entering the season of harvest, and farm owners continue to struggle. As the price of crops — including corn and soybeans — plunged, they’re now facing another challenge: labor ...

Walking orchards in the Central Valley, is something Scott Peters’ family has done for four generations. With his great grandfather settling in the fertile valley in 1933, the family has been immersed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Local workers I’ve interviewed in Washington state in the past year say they don’t blame H-2A workers for coming to work on farms; ...

Lilford could not afford a last-minute flight halfway across the world. There’s a market for lending to H-2A workers crunched for time, he said — one dominated by “people doing scams to get your ...