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The state’s $43.5 billion-a-year farm industry depends on a shadow workforce of undocumented Mexican immigrants that’s eroding under economic improvements back home and tighter U.S. border controls.

Applications for Farm Labor Housing assistance are due Sept. 13, 2013.

Mooney calls for immigration reform, points to lack of viable visa program for the dairy industry.

A farmworkers’ rights group is calling on federal safety inspectors not to delay a program of surprise inspections of New York dairy farms.

The Minnesota minimum wage jumps to $9.50 by 2016. Maryland’s jumps to $10.10 by 2018.

Look for those “grey areas” that may be costing you money and workers.

Dairy group unhappy that “elected officials could not set aside partisan politics to address the dysfunctional policy” of the U.S. immigration system.

Tension builds as President Obama plans to make changes to the nation’s immigration system through a series of Executive Orders that would bypass Congress.

Western United Dairymen joins the Agriculture Workforce Coalition in urging legislators to fix agriculture’s workforce problems before mandating e-Verify.

Training modules for human resource management are available through South Dakota State University.