Farmers

Federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission won’t say if immigration status will be used against victims.

Almost all of the wheat grown in the Pacific Northwest is for export, and even before President Trump's trade war, farmers were dealing with rock bottom prices and slagging global demand.

Hundreds of people took to the streets at the Oregon Statehouse Thursday in support of May Day. It is an annual event, but many immigrants and farmworker advocacy groups say this year is different.

Facing a dire agricultural labor shortage during World War II, the United States made an agreement with Mexico: a government-sponsored program to bring Mexican workers to the U.S. on temporary labor contracts to help farms, as well as railroad companies, across the country. Over 15,000 of these workers came to Oregon, under what became known as the Bracero Program.

A year after holding oral arguments, the Oregon Supreme Court has ruled a lawsuit against one of Oregon’s most recognizable farmer-owned creameries can move forward.

After decades of conflict, farmers and tribes say they’re working in concert to restore salmon habitat in the Klamath Basin. But two dams remain - one that blocks fish passage another that plays a key role for agriculture.

Lincoln Smith crashed a semitruck into a van parked along Interstate 5 near Albany, which was carrying 11 farmworkers.

Some of Oregon’s biggest trading partners are striking back after tariffs on imports took effect this Tuesday. Oregon industry leaders say he retaliatory measures could especially hurt the states agriculture industry.

In his drive to slash government spending, President Donald Trump has frozen or terminated millions of dollars in federal agriculture grant contracts. This is leaving farmers, ranchers, and landowners in Southern Oregon confused and worried.

An Oregon law passed in 2022 to phase in overtime pay for farmworkers has led to higher farmworker wages, but a new study shows hours are being scaled back to avoid overtime pay