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Despite years of debate in Congress and the country, the Senate immigration bill is really just the beginning salvo.

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.

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

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

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

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.