Items Tagged with 'H-2A program'

A marathon three-day hearing on the future of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement kicks off today, with testimony from agricultural groups.  

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.

A federal heat standard that would give breaks to farmworkers so they can cool down when temperatures reach “heightened levels” is among recommendations for Congress advanced by a bipartisan working group of House Agriculture Committee members tasked with examining ways to address ag’s labor shortage.