Phil Hallstedt picks cherries on his orchard in Michigan. He and his wife both have worked part-time jobs, but recently Hallstedt transitioned his cherry orchard to a U-Pick model where people can pay ...

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.

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.

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 ...

NEW HANOVER — The storied 120-acre former Fellowship Farm off Sanatoga Road, where the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Congressman John Lewis first learned about non-violent protest, and where ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...