Farmworker and grower groups are battling over the future of the H-2A program, as the Trump administration seeks to lower wages and provide relief to farmers who have complained for years about rising ...

Earlier this year, the Congressional Research Service (CRS), the Senate and House's self-described "exclusive" research and analysis group, "estimated 680,000 farmworkers are illegal immigrants and ...

USDA-ARS Sugarcane Research Unit research geneticists, scientists, and technicians harvest, tag, and bundle samples from test crops in rows of sugarcane in Houma, La. (USDA photo). A federal court has ...

When President Trump campaigned for his second term on the promise of deporting millions of undocumented workers from the United States, farm groups were quick to voice their discontent. An ...

Farm-employer associations see an opening to persuade the U.S. Department of Labor to stop setting farmworker wages, a practice they say severs labor costs from commodity prices. A federal judge in ...

The morale of the bunkhouse and the morale of the workers is really important, and it would be deflating to see their wage go down,” Barney Hodges of Sunrise Orchards said.

The U.S. Department of Labor will cut minimum wages for foreign seasonal farmworkers, arguing farmers can no longer bear escalating labor costs. A rule set to take effect immediately will count ...

The United Farm Workers of America filed suit against the Trump Administration, seeking to reverse a new federal labor rule that allows employers to cut the pay of agriculture guest workers who are in ...

There was widespread outrage at President Donald Trump’s comments earlier this year that Immigration and Customs Enforcement shouldn’t enforce the law against farms employing illegal aliens.