As the president’s immigration policies squeeze an already tight supply of farm labor, the Trump administration is making it cheaper to hire foreign farmworkers.

MONTPELIER, Vt. — After six 12-hour shifts milking cows, José Molina-Aguilar’s lone day off was hardly relaxing. On April 21, he and seven co-workers were arrested on a Vermont dairy farm in what ...

Most American dairy cows are milked by immigrants. On Dale Hemminger’s farm in upstate New York, the cows are milked by robots. When a cow wants to be milked, it walks up to a machine that cleans its ...

Rutledge has tracked a small decline in the number of farm workers from last spring, but he believes the farm workforce is currently stable, though vulnerable. “There's been a crisis in farm labor for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Local workers I’ve interviewed in Washington state in the past year say they don’t blame H-2A workers for coming to work on farms; ...