A farm worker has died after falling 30 feet from the roof of a greenhouse while trying to evade US immigration agents. The man’s death was announced by the United Farm Workers of America on Friday, a ...
Dairy farms are often portrayed as quaint and bucolic. But on the ground, the dairy industry is among the most hazardous to work in — the combination of heavy machinery, thousands of large animals, ...
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 ...
The H-2A program, which provides temporary visas for foreign nationals seeking seasonal agricultural jobs on U.S. farms, started nearly 40 years ago as an emergency initiative to combat a nationwide ...
Marco is an H-2A visa immigrant farm laborer employed by Fresh Harvest on April 28, 2020 in Salinas, California. Fresh Harvest is the one of the largest employers of people using the H-2A temporary ...