Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years. Thursday, October 03, 2024

ARTICLES

Farm Field Workers

California leads fight to fix national farm labor shortage

From California to Georgia, farmers can’t find enough workers to harvest their crops or milk their cows. Combined with Congress’s decades-long failure to act on long-promised comprehensive immigration reform, the result is that U.S. consumers are paying more for a less-secure food supply as more production moves south of the Mexican border in search of farm labor.
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Supermarket

Customer demand revolutionizing the food supply chain

Are you sustainable, traceable, and transparent?
Editor’s note: This is the fifth installment in our seven-part in-depth editorial series where we look ahead at “Farm & Food 2040.” This story focuses on the changing consumer expectations for food and how that’s impacting many aspects of the value chain of the present and future.
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