Despite a glut of news stories about farmers putting their workers at risk of infection, many growers are going the extra mile to keep their teams safe.
The Departments of Homeland Security and Labor plan to officially release a rule on May 8 that kicks off an application process for an additional 30,000 H-2B visas for fiscal 2019.
The “Best Single Topic Coverage by a Team” award from the American Society of Business Publication Editors was in recognition of GG’s labor-focused December 2018 issue.
With up-to-the-minute information into your greenhouse operations, you can react quickly when labor-intensive activities are eating up profit and productivity.
At a time when recruiting and maintaining sufficient labor remains a major challenge, greenhouse growers are using many methods to reduce labor costs and increase efficiency.
AmericanHort is strongly encouraging Kirstjen Nielsen, Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, to release nearly 70,000 additional temporary, non-immigrant H-2B visas.
Southwood Garden Center has had to manage through the labor crunch like most companies in the green industry, particularly finding labor on the landscape and growing sides of the business.
Hiring and keeping good employees, while dealing with rising labor costs, have challenged growers across the country. Four Star President Tom Smith shares his ideas on how growers large and small can improve their labor outlook.
