Dairy Exports to Mexico Create Nearly 25,000 Jobs and Countless Friendships
It might surprise many Americans that U.S. dairy exports to Mexico have created nearly 25,000 jobs in the United States. By: TOM VILSACK
Idaho dairy industry elevates worker safety, training
Idaho’s dairy industry is taking a unique and proactive approach to improving worker safety with a statewide on-farm training program. By: Carol Ryan Dumas
Former United Dairy Workers Union President Sentenced for Embezzling Nearly $100k
SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) – A former union president in northwest Iowa has been sentenced to a year in prison for embezzling more than $95,000 from the organization. By: Anndrea Anderson
Farmers looking to fill dairy worker shortage
Southland’s dairy farmers are on the lookout for more workers, with the industry on the rebound after two poor seasons. By: TIM NEWMAN
Dairy industry argues for lifting restrictions on migrant workers
Few Kiwis bother to apply for jobs on some dairy farms because the bar is set high, a dairy farmer says. By: GERARD HUTCHING
Got Milk? Not Without Immigrants! Immigrant Dairy Workers Deliver a Message to Wisconsin Legislators
About 200 Latino immigrants—mothers, fathers, and little children—gathered on the steps of the state capitol building in Madison, Wisconsin, on June 28 to protest legislation that would make the lives of Wisconsin’s mostly Mexican dairy workers harder. By: Ruth Conniff
Illinois farmers seek help to protect immigrant workers under Trump
CHICAGO — At a dairy farm in northwest Illinois, Esteban works the land the way his father taught him in his native Michoacan, Mexico. Every day before the sun rises, Esteban, who prefers not to give his last name because of his immigration status, feeds about 1,200 cows, regardless of rain, snow or hail. He has been working on the same farm for almost 17 years, he said. By: GABRIEL NEELY-STREIT and LAURA RODRIGUEZ
Dairy industry trying several ways to secure foreign workers
Enrique Correal knows the anxiety that foreign workers go through when they hear about deportation and new immigration policies coming out of Washington, D.C. Correal is from Colombia, but he has been working in the U.S. for eight years. He currently is based in Sioux Falls with Alta Genetics, working as a reproduction specialist who […]
Baby formula company to generate hundreds of jobs
In a $225 million investment, Feihe International Inc., a China-based manufacturer of infant formula, is opening a manufacturing facility in Kingston that is expected to create approximately 200 full-time jobs.
NYC’s Last Milk Processing Plant To Close In October
New York City’s last milk processing plant is shutting down after nearly a century in operation, putting more than 270 people out of work.