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 ...

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 ...

Latin American sheepherders, here on work visas, do the same nomadic work that European immigrants did before them. But do they have a shot at the American dream? A herd of sheep grazing in the ...

These herders left their marks on the aspens, and now we are part of a research collaboration that aims to document and catalog as many of their arborglyphs and the experiences they record as ...

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 ...

KETTLEMAN CITY, CALIF. - The shepherd strolled in knee-high grass, watching over a flock in a distant pasture near this remote outpost in California's vast San Joaquin Valley. At nightfall, he ...

Photo by NATHAN PAYNE, AP. A golden eagle glides in the strong wind curling around the pedestal where the 'world's greates' sheepherders' monument stands west of Gillette. Photo by NATHAN PAYNE, AP.

The proposed legislation, which was advanced by a 12-1 vote of the Joint Interim Agriculture, Public Lands and Water Resources Committee on Thursday, would increase the fines from $200 to $5,000 ...

Agri-Pulse Communications, Inc. Content on 'sheepherders'This week’s Open Mic guest is Chuck Conner, President and CEO of the National Council of Farmer Cooperatives. With planting season ...