In late July, the Department of Labor mandated a 50 percent pay rate increase for guest workers, amounting to a 75 cent-a-pound piecemeal prevailing wage. This has prompted one of Washington’s largest ...

A lawsuit filed in federal court alleges that a West Olive-based blueberry farm engaged in human trafficking and violated Michigan law. The complaint, filed Friday in U.S. District Court for the ...

Blueberry farmers in New Jersey have been waging a court battle for more than a decade against Novartis Crop Protection Inc., the maker of a pesticide known as AG600, which, they say, killed some of ...

(Beyond Pesticides, August 17, 2010) A federal appeals court has revived the fraud and negligent misrepresentation claims by blueberry farmers in New Jersey, who say that a pesticide made by Novartis ...