Items Tagged with 'agricultural labor'

The Trump administration is making another run at reforming the way H-2A minimum wage rates are set that could provide some relief to farmers at a time when there is continued uncertainty about employees who are in the country illegally. It's not clear what wages farms will be required to pay in 2026.

New legislation in California is designed to ease requirements of the California Environmental Quality Act, in part to encourage development of more farmworker housing. But the way the law is written may blunt its impacts, this analysis argues.

President Donald Trump, citing pressure from the agriculture and hospitality sectors, said Thursday farmworkers who are in the country illegally shouldn't be deported and reiterated that the administration would be taking action on the issue. "We’re going to have an order on that coming out soon," he said.

Former President Donald Trump, responding to a survey by the American Farm Bureau Federation, is throwing his support behind increasing commodity price supports and other assistance for producers. But Vice President Kamala Harris notes Trump proposed budgets that would have cut some farm programs. 

USDA is awarding $50 million to farms, ranches, labor contractors and other entities to hire and retain farmworkers, including by encouraging the legal import of laborers from Central America.