Rural Migration News summarizes and analyzes the most important migration-related issues affecting immigrant farm workers in California and the United States during the preceding quarter. Topics are ...

The H-2A program allows US employers who anticipate shortages of seasonal farm workers to be certified by DOL to recruit and employ H-2A workers to fill seasonal farm jobs for up to 10 months. DOL ...

US agriculture is a 50/50 industry, meaning that half of farm sales are from crops and half are the sale of animal products. California agriculture is a 70/30 state, meaning that 70 percent of farm ...

Economic development often decreases the supply of seasonal farm workers faster than the demand for such workers, leading to complaints of farm labor shortages. Most countries richer than their ...

The H-2A Program: GAO and AEWRs, The H-2A program allows US farm employers who anticipate shortages of seasonal workers to be certified by DOL to recruit and employ H-2A workers to fill seasonal farm ...

I. What is the EEOC? The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is the federal agency charged with the enforcement of the federal laws which prohibit discrimination in employment based on race ...

Net farm income is expected to increase in 2025 despite low corn and soybean prices due to more government payments. During Trump 1.0, government payments to farmers increased to compensate them for ...

Florida law requires employers of 25 or more workers to use E-Verify to check new hires went into effect in July 2023. Employers face $1,000 a day fines for noncompliance. After 18 months, no Florida ...

An average 545,000 workers are employed by 4,500 establishments in NAICS 3116, animal slaughtering and processing, earning an average $1,050 a week in 2024 or $26 an hour. Over half of meat employment ...

The US normally has about 320 million egg-laying chickens but lost 10 to 15 percent to the H5N1 virus or bird flu, driving egg prices to a record $7 a dozen early in 2025. DOJ in spring 2025 launched ...

Wonderful Nurseries sued the ALRB in federal court in December 2024, alleging that the ALRB’s certification of the UFW despite the opposition of many Wonderful employees violated its due process ...

President Trump took office January 20, 2025, declared an “invasion at the southern border,” and signed several executive orders to reduce unauthorized migration. Trump declared a border emergency to ...