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 ...

Former migrant farm worker turned astronaut inspires students in Hollister ...

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 ...

From a WI foundry to a dairy, immigrant workers and their employers are grappling with visa changes, enforcement crackdowns and an increasingly fragile labor pipeline.

GRAND RAPIDS, MI - A federal judge last week allowed a lawsuit accusing a West Michigan blueberry farm of forced labor and trafficking to largely move forward. U.S. District Judge Paul Maloney issued ...

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 ...

As U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Border Patrol agents continue their surge into Minnesota, the impact is now stretching into rural parts of the state, reportedly putting a squeeze ...

Racists have for centuries attempted to justify their belief that they are made of superior stock by making absurdist, unfounded claims about the supposed innate differences between races. Today, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...