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.

Since our organization, the Family Farm Defenders (FFD), began in the early 1990s, we knew that the fate of food and farm systems around the world are inexorably linked to one another. We witnessed ...

When President Trump campaigned for his second term on the promise of deporting millions of undocumented workers from the United States, farm groups were quick to voice their discontent. An ...

The Trump administration's tough stance on immigration is creating uncertainty for America's farmers. Many farms rely on foreign-born labor to pick crops, tend to livestock and handle other work. The ...

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins clarified that President Trump has no plans to give amnesty to farm workers, despite his recent comments hinting at leniency. Trump has expressed concerns that ...

The nation’s 2.6 million-plus farm workers – an estimated 1 million of them foreign-born– are a natural target of Donald Trump’s ever-escalating mass deportation campaign. About 45% of the total ...

VENTURA — Large-scale immigration raids at packinghouses and fields in California are threatening businesses that supply much of the country’s food, farm bureaus say. Dozens of farmworkers have been ...

Louisiana sugarcane farmers acknowledge they depend greatly on migrant workers from Mexico to plant and harvest their crops. (Photo by Olivia Perillo/The Current) In the late summer heat, the hours ...

KSHB 41 reporter Ryan Gamboa covers Miami County in Kansas and Cass County in Missouri. He also covers agricultural topics such as farming employment. Share your story idea with Ryan. "It's a step in ...