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A woman who illegally helped immigrants work at dairy farms in Michigan’s Thumb region was sentenced Wednesday to two years and three months in federal prison.

State authorities have charged the owner of a dairy farm in central New York where a 14-year-old was killed last year, crushed under a hydraulic lift.

Equip workers to stay ahead of fast-moving agtech advances.

To show your farm team you care, keep open lines of communication and provide incentives for a job well done.

Britain’s farmers rely on foreign workers to pick strawberries and raise chickens. Brexit puts that model at risk.

If President Donald Trump’s hardline stance on illegal immigration leads to large-scale deportations, among those hurt could be the U.S. economy.

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The labor situation for U.S. agriculture has only worsened in recent years.

Across America’s orchards and crop fields, a shrinking supply of migrants has already driven pay up faster than in the broader workforce. President Donald Trump’s immigration policy may turbocharge that trend.

Decline of immigrant labor has spurred agricultural automation.