More Who were the sheepherders who left their mark? Beginning almost 200 years ago, Basques emigrated to the American West to pursue economic opportunities, escape compulsory military service or ...

This next time around, however, he could make a lot more money. On January 1, 2022, California’s agricultural worker overtime pay rules went into effect for sheepherders employed by operations with 25 ...

March 5 (Reuters) - A federal judge has dismissed part of a class-action lawsuit accusing ranching companies of conspiring with a trade association to artificially suppress wages for sheepherders ...

Colorado’s 330 sheepherders work alone in the remote forests and deserts of Colorado. Colorado’s 330 sheepherders work alone in the remote forests and deserts of Colorado with minimal ...

Throughout the mountains of the American West, carvings hidden on the trunks of aspen trees tell the stories of the sheepherders who made them as they passed through with their flocks. Most of the ...

Two Peruvian sheepherders return from a day spent tending sheep in the mountains of Idaho, with three dogs in tow and a horse grazing in the background. Photo by Daniel Gonzalez Jaime ...

Sheepherders in the H2-A program are the lowest paid of all temporary agricultural workers in the United States, according to the I-News analysis. Sheepherders make $750 a month in most states ...

Sheepherders expect a weekly visit from their employers to bring them food. Most of the time, they will get what they ask for, but it depends on how much their employer is willing to spend for them.

British graphic designer Nick Hudson bicycled 500 miles along the Hudson River valley, striking up conversations with local artists and craftspeople as he went. Those stories — from maple syrup ...

I normally don't reply to something I feel is as biased and unscientific as the recent survey H-2A sheepherders done by Tom Acker, a professor at Mesa State College, and Jennifer Lee, of Colorado ...