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USDA Secretary Vilsack announced that $700 million in competitive grant funding will be available through the new Farm and Food Workers Relief grant program to help farm and food workers with pandemic costs.

U.S. ag is suffering from a labor shortage that could increase production costs and consumer food prices if not addressed through visa reform to provide better access to the foreign-born workers on which it depends.

The company says it will also provide $200 to fully vaccinated frontline team members.

Virtual recruiting, including career fairs and interviews, were catching on before COVID-19, but now they’ve become the norm. Virtual recruiting is here to stay.

Who should be telling the story of agriculture? The Shark Farmer says it may not be who you first think.

AgCareers.com is launching its 2021-2022 season of Feed Your Future virtual career fairs across the United States.

November employment data was called disappointing despite the unemployment rate dropping slightly. Retaining workers has become difficult even as employers raised pay, which eventually gets passed along to consumers.

The critical nature of the ag industry has required many ag employers continue business operations as normal. AgCareers.com’s annual Agribusiness HR Review survey of ag employers assesses employers’ COVID responses.

Here are five bad habits to break to be a better farm leader.

Cases and deaths from COVID-19 among workers at the leading U.S. meatpacking plants were three times as high as previously estimated based on an investigation by the House Select Subcommittee.