Strawberries rot as migrants shun agricultural work
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Media & professional: Â· Shortage of labour threatens crisis for farmsÂ· Squeeze may put more imported fruit on shelves
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BATON ROUGE, La. - Agriculture officials are testing plant samples from three Louisiana parishes and one Mississippi county for the fungus soybean rust, which damages crop production and forces farmers to use costly fungicide treatments.
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Migrants will be urged not to spit in the streets or litter, as part of a government campaign to aid the transition of newcomers into local communities
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BRUSSELS, Feb 13 (IPS) - European consumers shunning imported food  supposedly to limit climate change should not make African  farmers a scapegoat, a Brussels conference has been told.
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The number of migrant workers in rural England has grown by more than 200% in the last three years, a report says.
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GUELPH -- The fate of Ontario&#39;s soybean crop is quite literally at the whim of the wind. The United States Department of Agriculture confirmed last week that Asian soybean rust is present in soybean crops
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By NATALIE STOREY  Workers preserve forest lands while helping farmers make profits  It wasn't so long ago that farmers and cattle herders in southern Costa Rica, in their efforts to survive, had nearly destroyed part of one of the world's most beautiful rain forests.
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Some say strict measures endanger ecosystems, but others say those concerns are excuses for pro-immigrant sentiment
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The worst drought in over a century has farmers averting their gaze from a future that looks as bleak as their fields.
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Poor harvests caused by bad weather could hurt farmers more than the foot-and-mouth outbreak, the government's rural adviser says.
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The need for a documented, steady workforce is the biggest problem facing U.S. farmers, a leading U.S. grower group said days after a mammoth bid for immigration reform collapsed on Capitol Hill.
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GUIHUA, China -- For years now, nearly half the rice, wheat and vegetable farmers in this village in Henan province have been unable to make a living off their land. They have turned instead to more profitable migrant work in large, faraway cities.
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After years of growth in "remittances," a crackdown on illegal immigration and a slowing United States economy appear to take a toll.
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BINHU, China, July 14 -- It was early morning when an odd noise awoke Tao Qunxian, a farmer in this village on the banks of Dongting Lake in Hunan province. He looked out his front door to see his entire rice paddy had disappeared overnight. The culprit was a seasonal pest: the eastern field mous...
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By Elizabeth Nash  The morning is cold and damp and the mist has barely risen from the Doana marshes. But, at Vicente Gonzalez's strawberry farm in a pine forest bordering Europe's most important protected wetlands, they've been picking strawberries since daybreak.
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Concern at the distance 'green' produce travels.
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By Bill Jackson, Greeley Tribune, Colo.  Feb. 23--Immigration policies are a bureaucratic mess and getting farm labor for small farmers is next to impossible.