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Regulators are clearing the sky for drones to ... fill the sky

By Jed Kim
January 10, 2019
A drone flies above Old Bethpage, New York.
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What could relaxing regulations mean for businesses?

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Congress closes in on a final farm bill

By Kimberly Adams
December 12, 2018

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E-Verify could make it even harder for farmers and construction companies to find workers

By Andy Uhler
September 28, 2018
Mexican migrant workers harvest organic parsley at Grant Family Farms on October 11, 2011 in Wellington, Colorado. 
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A bill in Congress would require all employers to use the government’s E-Verify system.

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Food aid need shifts from cities to countryside

By Peggy Lowe
September 24, 2018
Small-town grocery stores like this one in southwest Iowa get 10 percent to 25 percent of their sales from federal food aid called the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, according to the Rural Grocery Initiative at Kansas State University.
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Since the late 1970s, lawmakers have placed the SNAP nutrition program into the farm package hoping to get both urban and rural support. But that thinking might be outdated.

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Heat exposure can be deadly for farm workers. Now, advocates are asking the feds to step in

By Eilis O'Neill
September 18, 2018
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Over the past three decades, about 800 workers have died from heat exposure; almost one in five worked in agriculture.

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A citrus farm is still dealing with lasting damage from Hurricane Irma

By Kai Ryssdal
September 14, 2018
Hurricanes are added stress on citrus farmers in Florida who already battle greening, a disease that effects their trees and causes bitter fruits to fall off of them prematurely.
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The storm was the fifth costliest in U.S. history, damaging orange trees in Lake Placid, Florida.

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For the UFW's first female leader, it's business as usual

By Kimberly Adams
September 03, 2018
A person holds up a U.F.W. sign during U.S. President Barack Obama's announcement of the Cesar E. Chavez National by in honor the late Latino farm worker and labor and civil rights activist on October 8, 2012 in Keene Kern County, California.
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Teresa Romero is also the first immigrant woman to lead a national union. She talked to Kimberly Adams about a variety of topics before she steps into the role in December.

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Trump administration details aid for farmers hurt by tariffs

By Amy Scott
August 27, 2018
Farmer Terry Davidson walks through his soy fields July 6, 2018, in Harvard, Illinois.
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Government aid is coming to U.S. farmers hit by tariff losses, but it probably won’t be enough

By Reema Khrais
August 27, 2018
A farmer collects stray ears of corn while harvesting the crop in 2014 in Polk, Nebraska.
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