NORVELL TWP., MI — Jessie Behen attentively filled an apple seed pot, running her fingers through a container to find the best pinches of dirt while sitting inside a skills center at Imagine Center ...

The departments of Homeland Security and Labor need to streamline operation of the H-2A farm worker program both to facilitate electronic processing of applications and more quickly identify workers ...

In 1965, the US government launched a program to replace the end of the Bracero program, which brought Mexican workers to harvest crops on American farms. The program, called A-TEAM or Athletes in ...

A recent Armed to Farm training, held in rural Kentucky, introduced veterans to careers in sustainable agriculture while giving them a place to connect, and a support system to lean on. An Armed 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.

On a cool morning in early June, Ram Khatiwoda, the farm coordinator at the New Roots farm in West Sacramento, California, took a visitor through the garden plots on a strip of land sandwiched between ...

According to the National Children’s Center for Rural and Agricultural Safety and Health, young workers were 7.8 times more ...

Dream of managing a farm? Owning a ranch? Working in agricultural finance? Regardless of where your dreams lie, the farm and ranch management minor is a powerful addition to any UW degree. This minor ...