State labor regulations and labor-intensive agriculture
Story Date: 6/19/2017

 

Source: FARM DOC DAILY, UNIV. OF ILLINOIS, 6/15/17


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.

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