AmericanHort truly represents the entire horticulture industry, including breeders, greenhouse and nursery growers, retailers, distributors, interior and exterior landscapers, florists, students, educators, researchers, manufacturers, and all of those who are part of the industry market chain.
Attending Impact Washington helps you gain knowledge that prepares you for conversations with your policymakers to protect and promote your business’s rights.
DOL’s revised methodology establishes new wage obligations for specialized occupational duties such as truck driving/hauling, on-farm construction, and first line supervisors.
AmericanHort lauded the announcement, noting it provides “much-needed relief to our landscaping industry to find additional workers they desperately need to operate.”
The AmericanHort conference offers attendees a change to learn the newest and best strategies, technologies, and techniques in the world of plugs and cuttings.
Today’s horticulture market dynamics making it is essential for growers to have full and accurate information about their cost structure to aid in managerial decision-making.
AmericanHort and the Horticultural Research Institute have launched the HRI Leadership Academy, a program designed to develop the skills the green industry needs to prepare for the future.
The diverse group of nearly 30 organizations, which includes members from the horticulture industry, is working to build support for bipartisan legislative solutions to immigration issues.
AmericanHort’s Craig Regelbrugge says USDA’s Farm Labor Survey results are out, and these regional gross average wages become the H-2A Adverse Effect Wage Rate.
The USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has deployed a new, high-tech tool to help protect U.S. nursery and specialty crop growers from Ralstonia solanacearum.
With the emergence of the Delta and perhaps other COVID-19 variants, many horticulture industry employers are evaluating whether to mandate or incentivize employees to be vaccinated.
The education and conversations taking place at the Finished Plant Conference will give growers immediately applicable tools to take back home and optimize production.
The efforts of AmericanHort and other organizations helped set a precedent of industry inclusion can only help future relief efforts for this current crisis, as well as future crises.
