It all began in the asparagus fields. Nineteen foreign workers hired at a Swedesboro produce farm in the summer of 2015 left ...

By moving with intention and building strength and awareness, farmers and ranchers can stay steadier, safer and more ...

Rural childcare is essential for the 2.5 million farmworkers in the U.S., who face unique challenges in accessing childcare, and should be included in the farm bill to ensure their children have ...

A report from UC Santa Cruz and a local nonprofit reveals that farm workers in Monterey County struggle with low wages and high living costs, making it difficult to support their families.

On a farm in Phoenix, one person with an iPad can weed a field of vegetables that once required 20 workers on their hands and knees under a hot sun. The Duncan Family Farms employee controls the ...

Since our organization, the Family Farm Defenders (FFD), began in the early 1990s, we knew that the fate of food and farm systems around the world are inexorably linked to one another. We witnessed ...

When Uriel Hernández Espinoza took a job as a migrant farm worker on Virginia’s Eastern Shore in 2022, he was promised fair pay, housing and meals. This week, he will be receiving compensation from ...

The nation’s 2.6 million-plus farm workers – an estimated 1 million of them foreign-born– are a natural target of Donald Trump’s ever-escalating mass deportation campaign. About 45% of the total ...

Activists and community organizations in Yolo County are planning a demonstration on March 28 to retrace a historic route taken by farm workers 60 years ago, as part of a national day of protest ...

Farm workers don’t have to be paid the minimum wage in Virginia. That's because Virginia law has an exemption that allows them to be paid less, something the Delegate Adele McClure has spent years ...

Two crawfish farm workers could have to pay $15,000 after authorities said they shot and killed an endangered whooping crane.