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The nation's average gas price increased for the fourth straight week, rising 15.3 cents from a week ago to $4.46 per gallon. Total farm tractor sales are now down 13.7% year-to-date.

President Trump has signed two new executive actions to boost immigration enforcement, including an order to begin construction of the promised wall, but that has some in the farming sector on edge because of the industry’s reliance on foreign labor...

Farmers who depend on a stable supply of foreign-born and often undocumented laborers plan to continue the long-fought battle for immigration reform. According to the American Farm Bureau Federation’s Kristi Boswell, there was a lot of heated rhetoric over illegal immigrants during the presidential campaign, much of it coming from Donald Trump, but that doesn’t mean farmers should give up trying t