From the time he was “old enough to carry a hoe,” Tom Schloeder was a member of the labor force on his father’s farm north of Eden Valley. Schloeder and his three older brothers, like most ...

Meeker County’s connection to agriculture is well-established – with dairy farms sprinkled throughout the countryside, First District Association’s enormous processing facility ...

Some of his best passages come early, recalling summers spent on his uncles' farms, working in the tobacco fields. The Life of a Blue Collar Actor By Jordan Rhodes Rhodes Productions, $19.95 paperback ...

And fairly early on the English ruled out the possibility of Native Americans as a work force in their tobacco fields. It was to England itself that Virginia planters turned for labor in the 1620s ...

Oxfam and FLOC conducted a joint study of the tobacco industry’s impact on the human rights of farmworkers in the fields of North Carolina. One in four—22 out of the 86 workers interviewed—reported ...

Forest Department has stepped up its efforts to reclaim forestland, dismantle illegal structures, and remove electric wires used for trapping wildlife.