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The truth is, I didn’t grow up on a farm. I, like most other people, can only imagine what being a farm kid is really like. So here I am, an adult co-owner of a farm, living the farm kid…

The best way to eliminate child labor is to tackle its root causes, ranging from poverty and weak law enforcement to traditional gender norms and lack of access to education.

On a growing number of dairy farms, cows, not people, decide when they need to be milked. Robots can do the job day or night. For some farm families, the robots free them from rigid milking schedules.

When the U.S. ended a guest-worker program in 1964, farmers responded not by raising wages, but by reducing their need for labor.

Trucking Along: Where rural roads are and where they are going.

By Ariana Reguzzoni on Dec 6, 2011Photo: Donn HewesAsk any 5-year-old: Few tools symbolize the farm like a trundling tractor. In fact, you’d have to reach further back in time to find an equally enduring symbol: the horse. And while there’s little doubt that tractors have revolutionized farm labor and made farms much more efficient than they were in past centuries, a growing number of farmers are taking the back-to-the-land ethos as far as it will go and choosing horses and mules…

Can a team of robots plant, tend and then harvest a field of barley?

Farm owner sees move to robotic milkers as a way to move his operation into the future.

A recent study by the National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) has found that the rate of injuries young workers suffer while doing farm labor has declined in recent years. For young workers on farms that aren't also their homes, the injury rate has dropped from 13.5 injuries per 1,000 workers in 2001 to 7.2 injuries per 1,000 workers in 2009 - a decrease of nearly half. The study defined "young workers" as those…

Labor will be here before you know it. Find out the 10 things you have to do before you deliver baby from installing the car seat to finding a pediatrician.