"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 ...

(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 ...

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; ...

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 ...

Guest workers on the H-2A visa program receive no less than the Adverse Effect Wage Rate set by the federal government. (USDA photo) The Trump administration is making another run at reforming the way ...

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 ...