Events

Farm Labor: Demand, Supply, and Markets

Kalmanovitz Appellate Courtroom, UC Davis Law School
Friday, March 17, 2023

This conference examines immigration and farm labor issues in California and US agriculture. Labor-intensive fruit and vegetable crops are almost 85 percent of California’s crop sales, the H-2A guest worker program is expanding, and higher labor costs are spurring both labor-saving innovation and imports.

The first session explores prospects for immigration reform generally and in agriculture, the second deals with farm worker characteristics and the H-2A program, and the third deals with technology, trade, and other issues affecting farm workers and the farm labor market.

There is no charge to participate, but you must register here before Friday March 3, 2023

We are grateful for the support of the ARE and the Gifford Center, the ALRB, and the Giannini, Rosenberg, and Walmart Foundations.  For further information, contact Philip Martin.

View the full report of the conference here.

Agenda

8:15AM: Check-in and Breakfast

8:45AM: Welcome, Philip Martin, UC Davis ARE, Helen Dillard, CAES

9:00AM: Immigration and Agriculture (20 and 10 minutes)

10:15AM: Break

10:30AM: Farm Workers in the 2020s (20 and 10 minutes)

11:45AM: Lunch

12:45PM: Christine Birdsong, CDFA

1:15PM: Futures: Machines, Migrants, and Imports (20 and 10 minutes)     

3pm: Adjourn


Immigration and Farm Labor

Andrews Conference Room 2203 SSH
Thursday, March 16, 2023

This conference for 35-40 researchers, students, and data generators and users focuses on the three major components of the farm labor market: the demand for farm labor, the characteristics and earnings of farm workers, and the operation of the farm labor market, including health and safety issues and labor issues in cannabis.

We are grateful for the support of the ARE and the Gifford Center, the ALRB, and the Giannini, Rosenberg, and Walmart Foundations. For further information, contact Philip Martin.

View the full report of the conference here.

Agenda

8:15AM: Continental breakfast

8:45AM: Welcome, Philip Martin, UC Davis

9:00AM: Demand for Labor: Technology, Trade, and Labor (20 and 10 minutes)

10:30AM:Break

10:45AM: Supply of Labor: NAWS and H-2A (20 and 10 minutes)

12:15PM:Spiro Stefanou, ERS

12:30PM: Lunch

1:15PM: Farm Labor Case Studies (20 and 10 minutes)

2:45PM: Break

3:00PM: Cannabis: Labor Issues (20 and 10 minutes)        

5:00PM: Reception with ARE Faculty and Students


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