For 60 hours a week, when seasonal work was available, the mother of three pruned nut trees or tended fields of melons or tomatoes in Colusa County.  She paid her rent. She stocked up on meat and ...

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 ...

PIERRE, S.D. — Cloe Swanson-Hartman has been surrounded by agriculture her whole life. She grew up on her seventh-generation family farm in Canton, South Dakota. She also has experience working at a ...

The shortage of affordable housing in the United States is starting to get nationwide attention. For Californians, access to housing has been a crisis for some time, and the state’s agricultural ...

After years of stalled promises and mounting pressure from Gov. Gavin Newsom, Half Moon Bay is moving forward with an affordable housing project for aging farmworkers who have spent decades working ...

Nominations for the 2026 Farmworker of the Year Award are open. The program seeks to celebrate individuals whose contributions are essential to the food system This award is about recognizing the ...

UFW and 18 farmworkers sued DOL on Nov. 21, 2025 to reverse H-2A wage cuts DOL rule cuts H-2A pay $5 to $7 per hour, shifting $2.46B to employers Lawsuit alleges IFR violated APA and creates adverse ...

California ag giant the Wonderful Co. suffered a setback on Tuesday in its bid to overturn a new farmworker unionization law when an appeals court tossed its lawsuit against state labor regulators.