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“Our daily struggle is labor,” said Mark Fellwock, the chairman of the Missouri Dairy Association. “We fight it every day.”

Six years ago, Illinois farmer John Ackerman didnt hire any contract workers at all. Now he typically hires about 22 every year through a local coordinator that helps farmers hire crews of agriculturally skilled, often Latino workers. Those teams hand-weed the soybeans Ackerman grows alongside the pumpkin and corn crops he uses for his primarily fall-focused agrotourism outfit.

Six years ago, Illinois farmer John Ackerman didnt hire any contract workers at all. Now he typically hires about 22 every year through a local coordinator that helps farmers hire crews of agriculturally skilled, often Latino workers. Those teams hand-weed the soybeans Ackerman grows alongside the pumpkin and corn crops he uses for his primarily fall-focused agrotourism outfit.

José Arturo González Mendoza’s death highlights wider issues in the H-2A visa program for seasonal farmworkers in NC.

Eleazar was 24 in 2014, when he began working seasonally with a H-2A visa for temporary agricultural workers at a tobacco farm in Benson, North Carolina.

The myths we tell ourselves about farming mask the dark side of US agriculture.

Republicans are rolling back child labor laws. But they’ve always been weak on farms.

Collaboration between Vermont Law and Graduate School and Farmworker Justice identifies system of enforcement that lacks capacity to protect farmworkers

Thursdays Daily Pulse | 3/11/2021 How will Florida benefit from the COVID-19 relief package? The U.S. House of Representatives gave final approval to the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan on Wednesday afternoon. The plan, which passed the U.S. House and U.S. Senate along party lines, is the largest COVID-19 relief package to date and likely the last. Under the plan, about 85% of Americans will receive a $1,400 stimulus check. The plan also extends $300 a week in federal unemployment benefits...

In Georgia and other states, health centers want to start giving farmworkers the COVID-19 vaccine as spring harvests begin. But they can't yet.