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 ...

Rural America has lots of opportunities and challenges, particularly when it comes to employment. This piece explores the ...

Farmworker and grower groups are battling over the future of the H-2A program, as the Trump administration seeks to lower wages and provide relief to farmers who have complained for years about rising ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The agriculture sector is on edge like never before. With ICE officers chasing undocumented immigrants through fields and barging ...

Farming isn’t just about planting seeds and harvesting crops-it’s a vast industry with many high-paying opportunities that people often overlook. While traditional office jobs are commonly associated ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. President Donald Trump on Tuesday remarked that undocumented workers are “naturally” suited for farm labor, sparking outrage and ...

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 ...

While having a job outside of the farm brings dependable income and often insurance, the heavy load of working to help keep ...

FIREBAUGH, Calif. -- Farm laborers in Central California's San Joaquin Valley fields and orchards continued to help keep the country's food supply moving. Valley farmers taking COVID-19 precautions ...