We help everyday farmers just like you obtain a Temporary Labor Certificate and then help you discover and hire skilled, reliable, legal agricultural employees from around the globe to work for your farm, agriculture, custom harvesting, or farm contracting business.

Jan 8, 2025 · The Farm Labor topic page presents data and analysis on the size and composition of the U.S. agricultural workforce; recent trends in the employment of hired farmworkers; farmworkers' demographic characteristics, legal status, and migration practices; trends in wages and labor cost shares; and trends in H-2A program utilization.

Mar 28, 2024 · Farmworkers make up less than one percent of all U.S. wage and salary workers, but they are vital to the country’s agriculture. They labor every day in fruit orchards and dairy farms, in blazing heat and freezing cold, to ensure that families have food on their tables.

Jan 28, 2025 · The U.S. agricultural industry has been heavily dependent on immigrant labor; any shifts in this workforce would ripple through the economy in ways that affect both workers and employers.

The Agricultural (Farm) Labor Survey provides the basis for employment and wage estimates for all workers directly hired by U.S. farms and ranches (excluding Alaska) for each of four quarterly reference weeks. The quarterly estimates, in turn, provide the basis for annual average estimates.

Working in collaboration with federal and state agencies, community-based organizations and other stakeholders, the coordinator identifies challenges faced by farmworker communities to better support hired labor vital to U.S. agriculture.

Farmworkers in the United States have unique demographics, wages, working conditions, organizing, and environmental aspects.

This annual release contains regional and national data for self-employed, unpaid, and hired workers and wage rates for selected weeks; also included in the report are the hired worker numbers and wage rates for selected states and changes in farm workers per region.

Virtually all employees engaged in agriculture as it is defined under the FLSA are covered by the Act in that they produce goods for interstate commerce. The definition of agriculture under the FLSA has two distinct branches: primary agriculture and secondary agriculture.

Farm workers on a field near Mount Williamson in Inyo County, California. This photograph is by Ansel Adams. A farmworker, farmhand or agricultural worker is someone employed for labor in agriculture.