Federal investigators announced today they are finding labor abuses in the overwhelming majority of agricultural worksites inspected in the Southeast. Last year, the U.S. Department of Labor ...
ATLANTA — After recovering more than $2 million in back wages for nearly 3,000 workers in the Southeast agricultural industry in 2023 and assessing employers with more than $3.8 million in civil money ...
DOTHAN, Ala. (WTVY) — In today’s job market centered around technology and services, farmers and other agricultural professionals have become scarcer in recent years. That is why the Alabama ...
Gardening feels exciting when spring starts stretching its warm fingers across the soil, but rushing seeds into the ground this year might bring more frustration than flowers. Something unusual is ...
BATON ROUGE, La. – A historic winter storm that brought record snowfall to the Southeast appears to have led to only minimal ...
With the push of a button on his cellphone, Michael Aide, chairman of Southeast Missouri State University's Department of Agriculture, can check soil moisture and turn on the center-pivot irrigation ...
Combined with the efficient use of fertilizer, fuel and crop inputs, growers in the program in 2024 reduced GHG emissions by an estimated 16,000 MT and models show 42,000 MT of carbon sequestered in ...
A grandchild of former Southeast Missouri State University agriculture professor and former Department of Agriculture chairman John Henry Gehrs intends to set up a lecture in his name. He is ...
For 28 Lancaster County educators, summer break has meant mucking around in Mill Creek, nature journaling in the Texter Mountain Preserve, and assessing plant growth at Penn State’s Southeast ...