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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.

At a time when labor is competitive it might be in your best interest to consider paying extra on holidays.

“This program has been providing a lifeline to growers across the province for nearly half a century.”

Consumers and animal rights activists are changing the way livestock are handled in the country, but there are groups trying to be proactive in bridging the gap between producers and shoppers.

Number found working illegally nearly triples in three years.

If it becomes law, it would put California at the forefront nationally of farm labor pay and mark a victory in the fight to improve farmworkers’ rights in a decade’s old movement launched by Cesar Chavez.