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The march starts at 5:00 pm Monday at the Henry Beauchamp Community Center, at 1211 S. Seventh Street.

**The American Fruit Growers held its annual State of the Industry survey, with labor a big topic. One-third of the respondents say labor is not an issue for them, at least not yet. Growing Produce says that group typically has a stable team of employees, and in 20% of those cases, it includes family members...

A new survey of 1,200 organic farmers and ranchers across the U.S. cites concerns over accessing labor and controlling weeds as key issues.

**A diverse group of more than 40 American food and ag leaders sent a letter to U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai on tariffs. The groups are asking for the suspension, reduction, or elimination of tariffs to ease the burden of retaliatory tariffs on rural America...

Aimpoint Research CEO Brett Sciotto says current trends point to 100,000 “production” farmers, a quarter or less of the current number of mid-and-large-size farms.

BOSTON (AP) — President Barack Obama used Labor Day as a chance to criticize Republicans, who he says stand in the way of helping workers and have been wrecking the economy for "a long, long time." Obama addressed a major union rally in Boston to mark Labor Day...

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- U.S. Secretary of Labor Thomas Perez says dockworkers will return to West Coast ports Saturday evening. In an interview with The Associated Press, Perez said that both the dockworkers' union and their employers agreed to resume weekend work now that they have reached a new contract...

Growers say labor woes at major West Coast sea ports have slowed the export of a record crop of Washington apples and endangered big Christmas season shipments of the fruit to Central America. Delays have also hit shipments of autos, smartphones and numerous other products as longshoremen and shippers try to hammer out a new contract involving work at 29 West Coast ports...

Costco stores open for more than a year saw a nine per cent increase thanks largely to higher gas prices last month. That story and more from KIT's Lance Tormey.

We're hearing conflicting information on the number of workers needed in the apple harvest here in the Yakima Valley. How many pickers are needed?