Idaho’s agricultural industry has struggled to find enough workers for years. But this year, the state’s ag labor supply is extremely tight.
PARMA — A line of striped watermelons sat nestled in between rows of melon plants in the early afternoon heat. Already picked, the heavy fruit…
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Rural America lost more population in the latest census, highlighting an already severe worker shortage in the nation’s far…
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon has adopted emergency rules meant to protect workers from wildfire smoke and shield workers living in labor housi…
MOUNT VERNON, Washington — Amid this summer’s historic heat wave, the state has updated rules requiring more precautions for workers exposed t…
As COVID-19 rattled the agricultural sector last year, many workers from abroad found themselves deeply impacted by shutdowns and uncertainty.
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Washington state on Friday became the second state in the Pacific Northwest in as many days to announce emergency rules …
Trending Now
WASHINGTON (AP) — Congressional Democrats and immigration advocates are staring at their best chance in years to overcome Republican oppositio…
The Pocatello Free Clinic plans to soon open a satellite clinic offering free services to the poor and uninsured in American Falls — a small, …
WASHINGTON – The National Potato Council recently participated in an agriculture industry roundtable discussion with U.S. Department of Agricu…
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Agricultural workers in Washington state would become eligible for overtime pay under a bill signed Tuesday by Democrati…
Lamb Weston will be hiring more than 70 workers to staff a forthcoming expansion of its potato processing facility in American Falls, accordin…
GRACE — Justin Stoddard started making plans to host an on-site COVID-19 vaccination clinic for his staff back in early January, after seeing …
CALDWELL — Last year brought a “perfect storm of perils” for farmworkers in the United States, with the COVID-19 pandemic, extreme heat and sm…
BOARDMAN, Ore. (AP) — Maria Corona knew she wanted to get the vaccine. Three months earlier, eight of her family members tested positive for C…
A bill aimed at addressing the worker shortage in agriculture and the uncertainty of the farm labor workforce, which has high rates of undocum…
POCATELLO — The minimum wage that Idaho farmers, ranchers and other agricultural employers must pay foreign guest workers in 2021 will increas…
BOISE — A bill to allow all drivers in Idaho, regardless of their immigration status, to obtain driving credentials after the proper training …
MECCA, Calif. (AP) — Migrant workers lined up by the hundreds during a break from picking produce this week to receive the coronavirus vaccine…
WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Joe Biden plans to unveil a sweeping immigration bill on Day One of his administration, hoping to provide an…
SPOKANE, Wash. — The agriculture industry is asking Washington state Gov. Jay Inslee to move migrant farmworkers and food factory workers clos…
A U.S. Department of Labor effort to make a foreign worker program cheaper for farmers appears unlikely to succeed.
NAMPA — A rule change from the U.S. Department of Labor that freezes H-2A worker wages and adjusts the wage level for some jobs took effect Mo…
WASHINGTON (AP) — A $900 billion pandemic relief package that Congress approved on Monday night contains several provisions that should signif…
BOISE — After an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division, an American Falls agricultural grower and potato tran…
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Tyson Foods suspended top officials at its largest pork plant on Thursday and launched an investigation into allegation…
RICHLAND, Wash. (AP) — Three Mid-Columbia farms are among those receiving the biggest fines in the state from the Washington state Department …
CALDWELL — Family Medicine Health Center received a grant from the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare to purchase 5,000 cloth face masks f…
