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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.
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.
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.
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.
Livestock haulers secured a win in the Biden administration’s infrastructure bill, which the House approved last week. Provisions of Sen. Deb Fischer’s HAULS Act are included in the bipartisan infrastructure framework.
Here are five bad habits to break to be a better farm leader.
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.
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.
When students walk into Anna Dilger’s classroom, they can expect play dough, cartoons and dancing. But her students aren’t kindergartners; they’re college students. And they’re learning from one of the best.
Smithfield Packaged Meats Corp. will assemble a team of company and third-party experts to develop an infectious disease preparedness plan that the company will implement at all of its processing facilities nationwide.
Over 400 employees of Seaboard Triumph Foods will receive $331,807 in back wages due to violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act.
Iowa’s second ‘ag-gag’ law, creating criminal charges for those who gain access to an agricultural facility using deception to cause physical or economic harm, has been ruled unconstitutional by a federal judge.
Data from the past five years shows that finding hourly/non-exempt staff is notoriously challenging. AgCareers.com’s recent Agribusiness HR Review illustrates this difficulty only intensified in 2021.
New research has concluded that higher wages, among other benefits, are necessary to attract workers to meatpacking jobs.
Activists entering animal facilities under false pretenses are protected in Kansas by ‘free speech’ due to recent Supreme Court rejection.
From recruitment to retention to building trust in the workplace, AgCareers.com will host their annual HR Roundtable on June 15, discussing current trends and issues in the agriculture industry workforce.
If finding employees to fill positions wasn’t hard enough, finding available and affordable housing has encouraged companies to provide housing options as part of employment.
As outdoor temperatures increase, so does the possibility of heat stress or even heat stroke. But there are ways to avoid getting “overheated” this summer, according to Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service experts.
The newest inductee of the Saddle & Sirloin Club hopes he will be remembered as someone who treated people fairly, focused on relationships and always kept the good of the organization first.
USDA announced an additional investment of more than $14 million to support agricultural workforce training in historically underserved communities to increase resilience of the U.S. meat and poultry processing sector.
There are so many reasons why kids should say yes to 4-H. But here are five reasons to say yes that don’t get as much attention.
Rep. Jimmy Panetta and Rep. Billy Long introduced the Agricultural Fairs Rescue Act to help preserve agricultural fairs across the country and offset the devastating financial losses they have experienced.