Meatpacking plants have long relied on immigrant workers to staff dis-assembly lines that extract cuts of meat from carcasses. The Big Four meatpackers, JBS, Tyson Foods, Cargill, and National Beef, ...

US agriculture is a 50/50 industry, meaning that half of farm sales are from crops and half are the sale of animal products. California agriculture is a 70/30 state, meaning that 70 percent of farm ...

The H-2A program allows US employers who anticipate shortages of seasonal farm workers to be certified by DOL to recruit and employ H-2A workers to fill seasonal farm jobs for up to 10 months. DOL ...

The US has 50 million or almost 20 percent of the world’s 280 million international migrants, far more than Germany (16 million), Saudi Arabia (13 million), and Russia (12 million). The US admits over ...

GAO . The GAO released a report (25-106389) in November 2024 that called for more oversight of the H-2A program and enforcement of H-2A regulations. The number of H-2A jobs quadrupled between FY13 and ...

Farm labor contractors (FLCs) are labor market intermediaries who recruit, supervise, and pay farm workers. DOL’s Wage and Hour Division defines a FLC as “a person or business who recruits, solicits, ...

After USDA suspended the FLS, DOL had several options to set AEWRs for 2026 including: • Freezing AEWRs at 2025 levels or adjusting them based on changes in the Employment Cost Index • Using another ...

Demand for plant-based meat alternatives (PBMAs) is shrinking amidst new interest in carnivore diets. Makemymove lists almost 200 local governments that offer subsidies of $5,000 to $10,000 to attract ...

US net farm income is expected to increase from $130 billion in 2024 to $180 billion in 2025; government payments are expected to rise from $10 billion in 2024 to $40 billion in 2025. Crops receipts ...

Industry observers expect 10 percent of the 6,000 California wineries to close in 2025 after up to 30 percent of the wine grapes grown in 2024 and 2025 were not harvested. Over 35 percent of the wine ...

In February 2024, the UFW was certified on the basis of a card check petition to represent 640 employees at 1,400-acre Wonderful nurseries in Wasco. Wonderful contested the legality of card check and ...

In the first 100 days of his second administration, Trump took more than 100 executive actions on immigration, aiming to block the arrival of asylum seekers at the border, end temporary protected ...