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Workers in the agricultural and food production fields have been hit especially hard by COVID-19.... (more)

One of our favorite categories of research is ways in which plants are smarter—or more... (more)

Black Americans were, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a major force in... (more)

Meatpacking plants have proven to be one of rural America’s worst vectors for spreading COVID-19.... (more)

We’re still a ways off from the appointments of the various members of the incoming... (more)

On Tuesday morning, a new coalition of farm, food, and environmental groups announced its formation... (more)

The Department of Labor has finalized new rules that advocates say will limit farmworkers’ hourly... (more)

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. A slow-moving... (more)

There are many ways in which agricultural labor—despite being difficult, dangerous, and necessary—is treated differently... (more)