Trump deportation plan creates uncertainty for undocumented U.S. farm workers – CBS News Watch CBS News Bird flu, climate change and rising costs are just a few of the issues threatening the U.S. farming industry. Now, President Trump’s mass deportation plan could add to the challenges. Nancy Chen spoke with farmers who are voicing their…
Talk to any farmer, and they’ll tell you it is difficult work. “This is a 24-hour job,” New York dairy farmer Nate Chittenden told CBS News. “So I need people who are willing to work in shifts at different times of the day.” But Chittenden says it is difficult to find those workers. All this…
By Naveen Thukral and Renee Hickman SINGAPORE/CHICAGO (Reuters) – Wheat growers in several exporting countries are reluctant to sell their crops with prices near four-year lows, traders, farmers and millers say, leaving flour makers with dwindling supplies and vulnerable to any potential upswing in prices. Typically grain processors buy wheat three to four months in…
By Sakshi Dayal and Ainnie Arif NEW DELHI (Reuters) – At least 16 farmers have been arrested in India’s northern state of Haryana for illegally burning paddy stubble to clear fields, a practice that stokes air pollution in the region around New Delhi at the onset of winter, authorities said on Tuesday. India’s national capital…