With their lives at risk during the COVID-19 pandemic, agricultural workers and owners face new challenges, including finding affordable healthcare.
To help reduce farm injuries before they occur, Western Growers Insurance Services rolled out the Connected Worker Program.
Approval of the Farm Workforce Modernization Act in December by the House was incredibly important — and the Senate needs to consider ag labor reform.
The Animal Agriculture Alliance, a nonprofit that bridges the communication gap between farm and fork, offers these tips regarding hiring farm workers.
A New York judge has thrown out a lawsuit that sought collective bargaining rights for farm workers. “New York Farm Bureau learned today that Judge Richard McNally has granted our organization’s request to dismiss the New York Civil Liberties Union’s baseless lawsuit that sought to create collective bargaining rights for farm workers. The Court’s decision […]
After her great-grandmother died because of conditions in the field, a California teen is fighting to reduce the high numbers of heat illness and deaths among farm workers in her beloved Central Valley through an Apple Watch app. Faith Florez, a 17-year old senior in high school and the granddaughter of farm workers, created the […]