Few elements of farm management have as much impact on productivity and profits as employee management.

Dairy farmers say they’re fed up with the posturing of presidential candidates who don’t understand the importance of immigrant labor to milk producers.

Land grant university leaders and farmers will tell you that ag majors have their pick of jobs when they graduate, but that message has not reached the general public.

April means hard work for farmers. You’re getting up at 3 a.m. You feel like you’re working around the clock. You’re tired. Your nerves are raw. Your temper is ready to flare at the slightest aggravation.

The death of meaningful U.S. immigration reform, done in by Washington partisanship and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s incendiary comments on foreigners, is leaving crops withering in the field and the farm lobby with nowhere to turn as a labor shortage intensifies.

Mark Diederichs wiped a splatter of manure from his arm as four Hispanic workers guided the next 44 cows into stalls, swabbed each animal’s teats with neon-blue disinfectant and attached computer-controlled milking-machine units.