For many growers, profit growth feels harder to achieve than it did just a few years ago. When margins tighten, your focus shifts — less about what’s next and more about what’s already in motion.

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On Aug 25, 2025, in Teche Vermilion Sugar Cane Growers Association Inc., et al. vs. Lori Chavez-DeRemer, et al., a U.S. district court in Louisiana vacated the 2023 disaggregation rule nationwide. In ...

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

Finding good, reliable and legal workers that you can trust with your cows or driving your sophisticated farm equipment remains a challenge from coast to coast and all parts in between. The Trump ...

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 ...

Farm labor scarcity is a growing challenge for farmers, particularly in light of the Trump administration’s goals for mass deportations. A new report from the University of California Giannini ...

Agriculture is grappling with an unprecedented labor shortage. The overall solution will inevitably include a shift to technology. Yet much of the technology is beyond the means of small and ...

It has now been over a week since the Trump Administration announced it was ending Operation Metro Surge in Minnesota, leading to the withdrawal of more than 3,000 federal agents from the state. The ...