State Labor Regulations and Labor-Intensive Agriculture
The state of U.S. agricultural production is changing. Over the next decade, increases to minimum wage and other changing labor regulations will have a dramatic impact on fruit, vegetable and other labor-intensive agricultural production in the U.S. These impacts will be on top of evolving immigration policies and trends, which have been receiving a lot of attention in mainstream media as well as farm media in recent months. Many of these changes will undoubtedly be welcome to farmworkers and their families. [node:read-more:link]