Rural America has lots of opportunities and challenges, particularly when it comes to employment. This piece explores the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The agriculture sector is on edge like never before. With ICE officers chasing undocumented immigrants through fields and barging ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Trump administration is cutting $1 trillion from Medicaid over the next decade while ruthlessly deporting hardworking migrants ...

Calling the U.S. farm workforce “critical” is an understatement. Agricultural workers’ labor feeds us. Yet their living and working conditions often do not reflect their immense contributions to ...

CEDAR — Every year for the past 10 years, Jose Abel has traveled more than 2,000 miles from the region of Durango in Mexico to northwest Michigan to tend to the grapes at the region's famed vineyards.

High costs of owning machinery are leading more farmers to hire out custom work on their operation. Kent Thiesse gives a look at how those custom farm costs look for 2025. Hiring custom farm work like ...

When most people picture a farmer, they don’t envision someone teaching math, driving a school bus or managing a bank branch. Yet for the majority of U.S. farm households, income from these off-farm ...

SACRAMENTO, California (KCRA) — One week since President Donald Trump took office, the threat of mass deportations has many families in northern California on edge. Emiliano Hernández, who supervises ...