Editor's note: This is the first installment of a five-part series, "The Great Farm and Food Talent Search," exploring the challenges and opportunities facing the agriculture and food sectors when it ...

A new law introduced by a California congressman would raise the minimum legal age of child workers in agriculture from 12 to 17. The bill would update the original 1938 law regulating farmworkers and ...

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Unemployed military veterans in the Valley could be taking on a new mission under a program aimed at helping them find jobs in agriculture. The program, called Ag Warriors, is patterned after similar ...

Tristesse Jones will probably never drive a tractor or guide a combine through rows of soybeans at harvest time. There isn't a farm within miles of where she grew up on Chicago's west side, but she's ...

Agriculture companies are looking for people who are interested in science, and hiring managers are increasingly looking for people who don’t have traditional ag backgrounds. Jobs in agriculture don’t ...

This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or sustaining member to read unlimited articles, webinars and ebooks. American manufacturing is near extinction and has taken the ...

In three weeks, Dave Mathison will pay 150 people to pick his 40 acres of cherries growing in a Finley orchard. The harvest season only lasts about 10 days, so Mathison must have his workers lined up ...