SEATTLE – The apple harvest in Washington state is in full swing. The labor-intensive job is always stressful, but increasingly orchard owners are worried if they can afford to pick all the ripe fruit ...

As Congress turns from passing a long-delayed farm bill to the next major policy fight, Republican lawmakers are signaling ...

From California to Georgia, farmers can’t find enough workers to harvest their crops or milk their cows. Combined with Congress’s decades-long failure to act on long-promised comprehensive immigration ...

Finding good, reliable and legal workers that you can trust with your cows or driving your sophisticated farm equipment remains a challenge from coast to coast and all parts in between. The Trump ...

The sun hasn’t cracked the horizon when Alfredo Betancourt and 19 of his countrymen line up behind a packing trailer, knives in hand, knee deep in dewy cauliflower plants. A tractor growls, the ...

It’s no secret that U.S. farmers have been burdened with ongoing labor shortages for years. The pain points of this issue include immigration laws in their current form and a declining interest in ...