farm workers

The collapse of a giant agriculture operation in the San Joaquin Valley sparked questions about the labor force that fuels California’s $50 billion agriculture industry.

There’s no end in sight for California’s prolonged three-year drought. With fewer agricultural jobs available in the San Joaquin Valley, will farmworkers decide to search for new opportunities outside the region?

The event will kick off with a parade along Fulton Street on Saturday at 11 a.m.

A new report from the California Institute for Rural Studies reveals food production employees worked in “life-threatening” conditions at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.

It’s one of the first programs of its kind in the country.

A proposed bill would pay farmworkers who lost work due to dry or low-water conditions $1,000 a month for three years.

She credits her background as the daughter of Mexican immigrant farm workers for driving her toward a strong education and the desire to break down health barriers within rural and minority communities.

New report predicts rising heat and health declines in the San Joaquin Valley

Every December, Catholic Latinos across the state honor the Virgen de Guadalupe. The celebration of Las Posadas commemorates the appearance of Mary, the mother of Jesus, to an indigenous man named Juan Diego in Mexico in 1531. Honoring that tradition was especially important this year for Firebaugh, a community that’s been hit hard during the pandemic.

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