Television crime shows often are set in cities, but in its third season, ABC’s “American Crime” took a different tack. It opened on a tomato farm in North Carolina, where it showed a young woman being ...

Aug. 1 (UPI) --Television crime shows often are set in cities, but in its third season, ABC's American Crime took a different tack. It opened on a tomato farm in North Carolina, where it showed a ...

SUNNYSIDE, Wash. — There had been rumors swirling that the mostly female workforce at the mushroom farm in Sunnyside, Wash., was getting replaced with men, but Isela Cabrera tried to keep her head ...

YAKIMA, Wash. - Legal advocates for employees and employers are engaged in a public debate over whether the state Farm Labor Contractor Act is serving its original purpose to protect employees, or if ...

“It’s unfortunately too late, but the writings on the wall for those of us who are still in this business.” One farmer grew blueberries in New Jersey. Another was a dairy farmer in Wisconsin. One was ...

The Washington Department of Labor and Industries has levied its largest-ever fine against a farm labor contractor, saying a Richland business employed 5,000 in 2024 when it did not have a license.

Recently released agricultural census data showed the number of farmworkers in Washington has dropped dramatically over the last five years. At the same time, the number employed through the H-2A ...

Prisoners working the Farm Line at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, Louisiana. (Photo from federal judge's order via Courthouse News) (CN) — The state of Louisiana asked a Fifth Circuit ...

More than three-quarters of female farm workers have experienced sexual harassment at work. U.S. lawmakers can and should do more to protect them, say researchers. Farmworkers weed a field of peppers.

While violence against women in agriculture may seem like an issue mainly experienced in developing countries, the truth is that it also happens all too often to women and girls on farms in the United ...