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.

The Trump administration is cutting $1 trillion from Medicaid over the next decade while ruthlessly deporting hardworking migrants and decimating America’s agricultural workforce, but don’t worry.

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 ...

The homesteading pros at Gold Shaw Farm show the real difference between white collar and farm work. Trump shares new ...

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 ...

For nearly 160 years, generations of the Isley family have cultivated the fertile soil of Lenawee County, about 25 miles from the shores of western Lake Erie in the River Raisin Watershed. And now ...

September is grape harvest season in the Willamette Valley. For Maria de Lourdes Navarro and her adult son, David Montiel, that means: Wake up at 5 a.m., brew some coffee, pack lunch and be at the job ...

In roughly nine years since he first came to Louisiana State Penitentiary, Patrick Jones has picked corn, okra, cabbage and beans by hand. He’s cut grass. He’s baled hay. He’s made sandbags and ...

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - This time of year, local farms are looking for more help. Work at Echollective Farm in Mechanicsville is ever-changing. ”Every day is so different. It depends on the ...

HIGHER GROUND: Root Cause Farm's manager, Jon McNair, left, and director of fundraising and communications, Sedona Lewis, right, are pictured in a field at the Fairview nonprofit, which distributes ...