Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. U.S. Rep. Dan Newhouse, R-Sunnyside, speaks with Richland Mayor Theresa Richardson following a Friday afternoon tax roundtable ...

While the government scales back on the number of ICE agents in Minnesota, labor uncertainty lingers over farmers heading into the spring.

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Cows, ribbons, and competition take center stage at the All-American Dairy Show, but behind the scenes, dairy farmers from across the country are confronting a challenge that doesn’t ...

Agriculture is grappling with an unprecedented labor shortage. The overall solution will inevitably include a shift to technology. Yet much of the technology is beyond the means of small and ...

Cattle industry representatives say they need more workers. They hope expanding a foreign labor program will help. Finding ...

Minnesota farmers are worried they won’t have enough hands to tend livestock and manage crops this year, a consequence of ongoing federal immigration enforcement in the state targeting undocumented ...

A study from Michigan State University found that when domestic farm employment declines by 10 percent, food prices of labor-intensive crops increase by around 3 percent. Specialty crop growers with ...