Wildfires Are Growing Under Climate Change, and Their Smoke Threatens Farmworkers August 16, 2024 By Dorany Pineda As wildfires scorched swaths of land in the wine country of Sonoma County in 2020, sending ash flying and choking...
Connecticut Farm Worker Paralyzed After Being Attacked by Bull September 8, 2023 A 59-year-old Connecticut man was seriously injured after being attacked by a bull at the farm where he was working....
Biden Multi-Agency Plan Seeks to Address Extreme Heat Stress September 24, 2021 By Matthew Daly WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is moving to protect workers and communities from extreme heat after a dangerously hot...
Coronavirus Spreading Among U.S. Fruit, Vegetable Packers Raising Concern June 11, 2020 By Mica Rosenberg, Kristina Cooke and Christopher Walljasper, Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting From apple packing houses in Washington state to farm workers in Florida and a California county known as “the world’s...
Farm Workers Getting Sick, Spreading Coronavirus As Peak Produce Season Begins May 29, 2020 By Mike Dorning and Jen Skerritt All of the roughly 200 employees on a produce farm in Tennessee tested positive for Covid-19 this month. In New...
Washington Farmworker Safety Training Classes at Capacity February 2, 2015 By Ross Courtney Surrounded by brushes, respirators and yellow plastic coveralls, Flor Servin held up a white baby onesie and told a room...