A larger corn crop is easing concerns of a grain shortage and could slow food inflation later this year. The U.S. Agriculture Department estimated Tuesday that 880 million bushels of corn will be left ...

A study from Michigan State University found that when domestic farm employment declines by 10 percent, food prices of labor-intensive crops increase by around 3 percent. Specialty crop growers with ...

CHICAGO, Nov 13 (Reuters) - A crop data blackout during the longest-ever U.S. government shutdown has led to the widest range of analyst estimates in a decade for corn and soybean yields, as an ...

When farmers can't afford to harvest, those economic effects spread beyond the farm itself. Farmers leave staple crops to rot ...

Cherry growers said they had a large crop of beautiful fruit but the season was a “bloodbath” or “trainwreck” due to labor and market challenges. At the start of the season, immigrant workers’ fears ...

Farm labor scarcity is a growing challenge for farmers, particularly in light of the Trump administration’s goals for mass deportations. A new report from the University of California Giannini ...

Mayank Gandhi, 37, launched Kanan Park Technologies to automate farming, addressing labor shortages and improving crop ...