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 role of commuting, farms and remote work.

FIREBAUGH, Calif. (KFSN) -- Farm laborers in Valley fields and orchards continued to help keep the country's food supply moving. Valley farmers taking COVID-19 precautions maintained their safety is a ...

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 ...

Ask any person behind a family farming operation, and you’ll hear how the economics are struggling to keep pace with today’s ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Federal agents block people protesting an ICE immigration raid in Camarillo, California - Getty Images A farm worker has died ...

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 ...

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 ...