What changes will you make in 2012?
Many growers, particularly on the West Coast, didn’t have enough workers to pick their fruit last fall. The new year
Prison worker experience was positive
Hiring prisoners to pick the tail end of their apple crop was a “last ditch” effort, but Scott McDougall believes
More rules proposed on child labor
Proposed new rules from the federal Department of Labor would further restrict the kind of work young people may do
Georgia peach growers use H-2A
Peach growers were conspicuously absent from the list of fruit and vegetable producers who suffered crop losses when some 11,000
H-2A is not for everyone
One of the biggest of the many problems with the H-2A foreign guest-worker program, from the grower’s point of view,
H-2A program requirements
The federal H-2A foreign guest-worker program allows employers who are short of workers to bring people into the United States