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WASHINGTON – Equitable Food Initiative, the workforce development and certification organization that partners with growers, farmworkers, retailers and consumer groups,...

Brewster, Wash. – Gebbers Farms BB #:315700 announced the successful settlement with the Washington State Department of Labor & Industries...

MONTEREY, CA – The foodservice industry’s biggest challenge during the pandemic was getting back to business after lockdowns and finding...

Many industries are having trouble finding adequate labor, but the foodservice industry has been hit harder as it ramps up...

While they didn’t dare use the term “new normal” to describe the conditions in the foodservice industry, several leaders said...

WASHINGTON, June 28, 2021 – Equitable Food Initiative, the workforce development and certification organization that partners with growers, farmworkers, retailers...

ROSEMONT, Ill.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–US Foods Holding Corp. BB #:134354 announced today the launch of Summer Scoop. Themed “Dining Out Is In...

The produce industry has trouble finding enough labor during normal times, so when the labor market is especially tight, like...

Hey, gang! Fun’s over! Time to get back to work! It is in questionable taste at best to refer to...

“Complaining that people don’t want to work because they could make more on unemployment is a funny way of admitting...

Which is the latest organization to speak out in favor of immigration reform? The George W. Bush Institute, a conservative...

Avondale, PA, May 13, 2021 – “Retailers are facing fresh mushroom shortages as producers struggle to find labor for their...

“Frustrated Oregon farmer turns to social media to raise awareness of labor problem” “Oregon farmer opens fields to public in...

LACEY, WA — April 21, 2021 — Yakima County Superior Court Judge Blaine Gibson ruled in favor of agriculture groups,...

To sum up the future perspective, labor costs for growing fruits and vegetables in the United States are likely to...

Fruit and vegetable growers have looked with a longing eye to mechanization as a way out of the chronic labor...

The current guest worker program in agriculture is the H-2A program. Its origins go back to the Immigration and Nationality...

The produce industry’s labor difficulties stretch back decades before anyone had heard of the coronavirus—to the early twentieth century. The...