With labor an ongoing issue for specialty crop growers, Florida Farm Bureau Assistant Director of Ag Policy Josh Craft is reminding producers of three Department of Labor seminars sponsored in part by Farm Bureau that are scheduled for next week.
Tentative topics to be discussed include the following: MSPA, H2A, field sanitation, transportation and housing rules and regulations. The schedule is as follows: Monday, Dec. 7, Arcadia, Turner Center (the small building called the Annex), 2250 N.E. Roan St.; Tuesday, Dec. 8, Winter Haven, Florida Citrus Building (Nora Mayo Hall), 500 3rd St., N.W.; Wednesday, Dec. 9, Sebring, Sebring Civic Center, (not the Ag Center on US 27). The Civic Center is right by the library in downtown Sebring, off Lakeview Drive. The actual address is 355 W. Center Ave.