Over the course of its history, many Americans have held out hope that the U.S. would create a farming nation that lives up to the original promise of an organic democracy – the democracy Jefferson ...

Since our organization, the Family Farm Defenders (FFD), began in the early 1990s, we knew that the fate of food and farm ...

In a neighborhood that appeals to people from both the right and the left, residents strive for a finely tuned state of ...

California enacted rules two decades ago that should have saved many more lives than they have. We need serious investment ...

As Dr. Don Gargas’ wife of 57 years, retired Yakima Herald-Republic reporter Jane Gargas was settling his affairs earlier ...

Agricultural workers are toiling in the state's worst heat wave this year, amid questions about the state's commitment to ...

A South African farm worker says he was forced to feed two Black women's bodies to pigs after his former boss, a White farm owner, allegedly shot them for stealing food. The case has sparked ...

As Donald Trump suggests that immigrants are “naturally” designed for farm work, his preoccupation with immigrants and genetics seems to be getting worse.

Trump's remarks on undocumented farm evokes racist theories about Black and Brown people being better at labor because of their physiology.

President Donald Trump claimed undocumented immigrants are "naturally" inclined toward farm labor during an interview with CNBC’s Squawk Box.

I’ve followed the news of farm-worker deportations with great interest. We hire two seasonal workers from Mexico, both legal, at our small flower-growing business. The Trump administration has ...