The head of the National Council of Agricultural Employers says a recent federal court decision brings more certainty to farms using the H-2A program. John Hollay tells Brownfield the U.S.

April nonfarm payrolls grew by 115,000, and 2025 added just 181,000 jobs in total, down from 1.46 million the year before.

Some farms are having trouble receiving workers on H-2A visas. The delays are burdening existing farmworkers and depriving ...

A federal judge in California has allowed the Trump administration’s revised wage framework for temporary agricultural ...

U.S. Representative Vicente Gonzalez (D-Texas) has asked the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump to release more ...

A federal judge found that the plaintiffs, U.S. citizens working in the fields, had not shown that their pay would reduced ...

A case headed to the U.S. Supreme Court could change how labor protections for farmworkers are enforced nationwide, including ...

A hotel in Sunnyside is being converted to a temporary home for farmworkers as a change in federal law makes it easier to pay ...

A major change to a federal farmworker visa program known as H-2A is sparking a heated debate across California. The program allows farms to bring in temporary workers from other countries, but a ...

A worker prunes peach trees in an orchard at Orchard Valley Farms in Paonia, Colorado on March 17, 2026. (Dean Krakel, Special to The Colorado Sun) An under-the-public-radar federal rule change is ...

Today is Justice Elena Kagan’s birthday. Born in 1960 in New York City, Kagan has served on the Supreme Court since 2010.

The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to take up whether the Labor secretary needs to go to federal court to impose massive fines against employers for breaching agricultural visa rules. The government ...