Federal agents arrested seven to 11 people who were on their way to Backyard Farms in Madison, raising concerns on increased immigration enforcement in rural areas.

For a second time in two weeks, Border Patrol agents have detained migrant workers outside Skowhegan on their way to work for Backyard Farms in Madison.

Three people are facing federal charges for allegedly trafficking Mexican agricultural workers into forced labor on a farm in Northampton County, among additional farms in other states.

Gig companies would have an easier time classifying workers as independent contractors under a new US Department of Labor ...

The Kennewick firm was approved to supply H-2A foreign temporary agriculture workers to farms in Washington in 2022 and 2023 and in Oregon in 2023 and 2024.

2026 marks the 60th anniversary of the SAWP. Migrant farm workers employed by the SAWP are tied to an employer, are denied equal access to benefits, and are denied social and labour mobility. Workers ...

It’s a new year, and a new way of paying migrant farm workers who are legally in the U.S. and Wisconsin under federally-issued visas – and the changes are drawing ...

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

Our ag producers are in a tenuous situation,” Amanda Laban, the markets division director for the Colorado Department of Agriculture, told state lawmakers.

Employers have been replacing workers with machines at least since the invention of the plow about 6,000 years ago. In the ...

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