Immigration raids leave crops unharvested, California farms at risk

OXNARD, California (Reuters) -Lisa Tate is a sixth-generation farmer in Ventura County, California, an area that produces billions of dollars worth of fruit and vegetables each year, much of it hand-picked by immigrants in the U.S. illegally. Tate knows the … Read More

German farmers block roads with tractors in subsidies protest

Partial U-turn by Berlin fails to avert week-long nationwide action that government says could be co-opted by rightwing extremists German farmers blocked city centres, highways and motorway slip roads with tractors at the start of a week-long, nationwide protest over … Read More