Tag: labor

Fyffes has recently concluded its third year of human rights due diligence and provided an update to its salient human rights risks in its second-ever Human Rights Report,

Technology is advancing quickly and providing us with benefits we only dreamed of just a decade ago. One particular technology that has proven extremely beneficial in agriculture is automation.

Every CEO drones on about how their most important resources are human resources. But this is exactly opposite to the way they behave.

Although beer is, strictly speaking, an agricultural product, the strike at the Leinenkugel brewery in Chippewa Falls, WI, does not directly relate to the produce industry. But indirectly it does.

At this point, one can exasperatedly wonder what it will take to make the Farm Workforce Modification Act (FWMA) into the law of the land.

The adverse effect wage rate (AEWR) is one of many features that make the H-2A guestworker program unpopular with growers. One recent innovation makes it more so. This new provision applies multiple wage rates rather than the single statewide rate that had previously been in place.

Remote work has grown in popularity and is being celebrated with its own holiday on June 29. To mark the occasion, ZAG Technical Services, an award-winning strategic IT consulting firm and the leading IT security provider in agribusiness is sharing top tips for increasing tech security for remote workers.

The State Department dropped the fee increase from 63 percent to 7.9 percent after it received more than 80 comments from farmers.

The single most important event affecting the produce industry at the moment is no doubt the proposed settlement of the longshoremen’s strike at West Coast ports. The six-year agreement was reached late yesterday.

Equitable Food Initiative, the capacity-building and certification organization that partners with growers, farmworkers, retailers and consumer groups, is bringing attention to National Safety Month and encouraging fresh produce grower-shippers to ­­­­­prioritize worker engagement to drive workplace safety and improve the bottom line.