"Rancher/farmer feedlots and livestock auction markets cannot acquire enough seasonal domestic employees to meet the needs of their businesses." ...

Three Mexican citizens were indicted on 35 counts related to a scheme that allegedly trafficked Mexican farmworkers into the ...

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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 ...

A Yakima resident and three Tri-Cities-area residents are accused in a fraud, identity theft and forced labor case involving ...

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 ...

(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 ...

Lilford could not afford a last-minute flight halfway across the world. There’s a market for lending to H-2A workers crunched for time, he said — one dominated by “people doing scams to get your ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Local workers I’ve interviewed in Washington state in the past year say they don’t blame H-2A workers for coming to work on farms; ...