H-2A use continues to soar in FY 2025 as U.S. farmers face persistent labor shortages, rising costs and limited domestic ...

The H-2A foreign worker program saw another year of growth in 2025, with the number of certified positions increasing by ...

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 ...

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With ICE making more arrests of farmworkers and other people in the country illegally, Chris Grobbelaar of Labor Inbound anticipates farmers who lost workers will have gaps to fill. Chris Grobbelaar, ...

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 ...

Summer may be synonymous with sand, picnics, grilling and camps, but that is not everything that happens during summer. At least, that is, during this summer. While you may have been enjoying the long ...

Marco is an H-2A visa immigrant farm laborer employed by Fresh Harvest on April 28, 2020 in Salinas, California. Fresh Harvest is the one of the largest employers of people using the H-2A temporary ...

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; ...