Pickers Are Few, and Growers Blame Congress
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Stepped-up border enforcement has exacerbated a labor shortage for the agriculture industry.
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In a shallow, star-struck industry, rarely do you come across people who have their head firmly planted on their shoulders.
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Congress dithers, and investors should beware.
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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.
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The lawmaker poised to cause the Bush administration's biggest headaches when Democrats take control of Congress may just be a grocer's son from Watts who's hardly a household name off Capitol Hill.
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By Greg Edwards, Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va.  Jun. 26--Every few years, the gaze of Virginia farmers falls beyond the edges of their fields toward Washington, where lawmakers are crafting another farm bill.
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Consumers should see more price increases or fewer discounts for orange juice because of what is expected to be a lackluster crop.
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Home Depot is tired of being forced by local governments to accommodate the day laborers who turn up in its store parking lots seeking construction work. So the Georgia-based company turned to Congress for help.
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Advocates for small farms aim to parlay success of coffee sales to other consumer food staples. By Michael Hill. Mark Van Wormer is a fair trade coffee guy.
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Veterinarians who care for the animals that provide the United States with food are in increasingly short supply.
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By Brian Lee, The Monterey County Herald, Calif.  Mar. 6--The fight of the small farmer is everybody's fight, said the president of an agricultural organization that represents black growers in California.
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With water becoming increasingly precious in California, a rising number of farmers figure they can make more money by selling their water than by actually growing something.
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Farmers are not ready to abandon   crop subsidies for the "green" payments that some reformers say   should be the new focus of the $20 billion-a-year U.S. farm   program, a survey of growers showed on Wednesday.
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Some small farms, faced with stagnant income and mounting expenses, are opening up their operations to nonagricultural activities just to survive.
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Many people have so little knowledge of farming they don't realise which foods are domestically grown.   A survey commissioned by the charity Leaf (Linking Environment and Farming) claims that more than one in four (29%) of the 1,700 adults questioned had never set foot on a working farm.
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Managers of US marine fisheries may have overlooked a cunning predator that takes almost a quarter of the catch of threatened species: Uncle Joe, the fishing nut.
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A move to end subsidies and offer a buyout will aid big growers and cause smaller ones to give up their fields.