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Star Farms in Brighton must also pay more than $1.7 million in back wages and penalties, according to the state labor department.

Farmworkers harvest a field, Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025, in Homestead, Fla. The H-2A program has allowed foreign workers to fill agricultural jobs on a temporary basis for decades. But intense ...

(WNDU) - We are entering the season of harvest, and farm owners continue to struggle. As the price of crops — including corn and soybeans — plunged, they’re now facing another challenge: labor ...

The U.S. agricultural industry depends on undocumented immigrants, but President Trump’s immigration crackdown is further depleting an already tight workforce. The labor crisis may be setting the ...

Marco is an H-2A visa immigrant farm laborer employed by Fresh Harvest on April 28, 2020 in Salinas, California. Fresh Harvest is the one of the largest employers of people using the H-2A temporary ...

Summer may be synonymous with sand, picnics, grilling and camps, but that is not everything that happens during summer. At least, that is, during this summer. While you may have been enjoying the long ...

photo credit: Mark Stebnicki, North Carolina Farm Bureau; used with permission. Today’s Market Intel reviews how the Department of Labor’s final rule amending the methodology for determining the H-2A ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. President Trump’s deportation of more than half a million people, along with his ending of several ...