The state’s agriculture industry relies on the H-2A farmworker visa program. A federal lawsuit is challenging the change.

An Alachua County farmer says delays in the federal H-2A visa program have put his winter harvest and more than a million dollars’ worth of crops on the line.Steven Davis, a family farmer in Alachua, ...

American agriculture relies on foreign workers, and that workforce is already stretched thin. With Trump’s immigration crackdown set to expand next year, some farmers fear that workers will be even ...

(WNDU) - We are entering the season of harvest, and farm owners continue to struggle. As the price of crops — including corn and soybeans — plunged, they’re now facing another challenge: labor ...

Farmers say H-2A program costs are pushing many of them out of business and lowering wages is a need. Union says that would ...

Alachua County farmer Steven Davis said he could lose over a million dollars as acres of cabbage sit unharvested on his farm.

Lilford could not afford a last-minute flight halfway across the world. There’s a market for lending to H-2A workers crunched for time, he said — one dominated by “people doing scams to get your ...

Marco is an H-2A visa immigrant farm laborer employed by Fresh Harvest on April 28, 2020 in Salinas, California. Fresh Harvest is the one of the largest employers of people using the H-2A temporary ...

At the same time, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in recent months appears to be refraining from conducting ...

Farmworkers harvest a field, Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025, in Homestead, Fla. The H-2A program has allowed foreign workers to fill agricultural jobs on a temporary basis for decades. But intense ...