…before it got too hot. High temperatures also put added pressure on labor in some areas, with growers struggling to find enough pickers to get the grapes off the vine…
Trump Announces USDA Nominations over Labor Day Weekend
Northery President Donald Trump over the weekend announced three nominations to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Trump has nominated current Iowa Agriculture Secretary Bill Northey to serve as the undersecretary…
Labor Day Gardening
How to celebrate Labor Day in your backyard or garden. Cathy Isom has some special ideas for you coming up on This Land of Ours. Labor Day Gardening While many…
Perdue Talks NAFTA Benefits with Trump
…resolve those issues. The secretary says the primary concerns he’s hearing from farmers about the NAFTA talks include labor, regulations, and trade. The second round of talks is September 1-5….
Low Education Rural Counties Worse Off than Higher Education Rural Counties
…50,000 that are not part of larger labor markets, or metro areas. About 40 percent of low education rural counties are also persistent poverty counties, with poverty rates of 20…
Study Shows Positive Impact of American Sheep Industry
…and related activities generates $2.42 in total labor income. The Employment Multiplier revealed that every 10.4 jobs in the sheep industry at the farm gate supports a total of 19.50…
Agriculture’s ‘Do No Harm’ Message Getting Through?
…gains for their farmers and ranchers, they say they want more than minor changes, including better trade flows, labor and environmental standards, and a dispute settlement system some US industries…
Wall Street Journal Names Agriculture a NAFTA Issue to Watch
…talks. When President Trump threatened to withdraw from NAFTA, some Mexican politicians warned that their nation could import corn from other Latin American nations instead of the U.S. Meanwhile, Labor,…
MPI Report: U.S. Agricultural Workforce Being Reshaped
Shifting Migration & Labor Strategies, with Drop in Unauthorized Share & Rise in Use of H-2A Program Shifting migration patterns and labor strategies are reshaping the overwhelmingly foreign-born U.S. agricultural…
Early Market Benefits Apple Growers
…a lot of growers moved to nuts,” Chinchiolo said. “I know the labor issue is a concern for a lot of people with tree crops. Apples are all hand-harvested. Nuts…
Farm Labor Shortage May Drive Produce Prices Higher
…the end of a serious drought this spring, a serious labor shortage is becoming another issue to deal with. California is where the bulk of the nation’s produce is grown…
Labor Shortages Continue to Plague California
…in the $13 million-dollar range because of a lack of available labor. Listen to Jacobsen’s full interview Ryan Jacobsen Interview Along with a shortage of labor, several other factors are…
Ports Contract Eases Trade Concerns
A contract agreement between the International Longshore and Warehouse Union and the Pacific Maritime Association has eased trade concerns. The two ratified a three-year extension to the labor contract for…
Immigration Bill Won’t Affect Temporary Workers
The sponsor of an immigration bill suspected to reduce the agriculture labor force in the U.S. says his legislation will not impact temporary workers, which are often used in agriculture…