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The U.S. Department of Labor on Thursday announced a final rule aimed at improving living conditions for temporary immigrant farmworkers.
Employers, rather than employees, are the primary work-site targets of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Large dairy operations, those with 50 or more employees, will now be required to provide health insurance for their employees and possibly for their families as well.
Security cameras help dairies know what cows, employees and visitors are up to
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The second edition of “Party-Directed Mediation: Helping Others Resolve Differences” is now online and explains how to deal with conflicts among peers and with disputes between superiors and subordinates.
Overshadowed by the health-care debate, high unemployment and a struggling economy, attempts to overhaul immigration and the guest-worker program have not gone far.
Every morning at 4, Jim and Greg Moes meet in their office at their dairy’s new milking center to plan the day’s activities. It’s quieter then, before feed wagons and skid steers and milk trucks roar through the operation.
California’s Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has vetoed a bill that would have given farmworkers overtime pay after eight hours of work in a day and 40 hours in a week.
With today’s largely Hispanic work crews, finding a midlevel manager to lead the team is never easy.
Agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested two dairy farm owners in Michigan Wednesday.
The DREAM Act passed by the House of Representatives yesterday does not contain AgJOBS, which suggests passage of either is unlikely.
“Homeland security begins with hometown security,” Secretary Janet Napolitano says.
DeLaval has introduced its prototype robotic rotary, a 24-stall herringbone configuration that can milk up to 800 cows 2X or 540 cows 3X.
At least three major Arizona agricultural groups aren’t pleased with the new immigration law the state passed last Friday.
Controlling variation requires that employees clearly understand the goals of the dairy.
Vermont’s congressional delegation is sponsoring companion bills to expand a visa program to allow struggling dairy farmers more access to foreign workers.
The installation uses four robotic milkers in sequence to prep and attach milker units.
Johannes and Anthonia Verhaar also face up to six years in prison.
Bill would have enabled unions to bypass elections by urging the majority of a grower’s workers to sign cards.
The solution to the immigrant labor crisis lies in comprehensive immigration reform, California group says.
Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signed a controversial new immigration bill today, saying it will help the state solve a crisis that the federal government has refused to fix.
Georgia’s immigration bill will hit farmers where it hurts.
Working supervisors form the communication bridge between owner and workers.
Finding workers has become the number one concern for many local farmers. Tougher immigration laws, local people gravitating to other work, and the lack of an effective guest worker program makes filling the fields with workers more difficult than it was in the past.
Wisconsin’s status as America’s Dairyland was built on the hard work and perseverance of generations of family farmers. This industry generates $26.5 billion in economic activity each year and is interconnected with nearly every industry sector in our state. Every dollar of dairy income delivers an additional $1.54 into local communities.