News Archives - Modern Farmer
Driven Out

If you’ve eaten today, you can thank a trucker. Much of the food we eat... (more)

Lena Beck
January 11, 2024
Farmworker-Led Groups Push For Next Farm Bill to Include Worker Rights and...

Luiz Jiménez, 39, has been working on American dairy farms for 20 years. He is... (more)

Marin Scotten
December 7, 2023
Midwest Drought: Corn and Soybeans Suffer as Forecasters Expect No Quick Relief...

A dusty Nick Stanek stepped off his tractor after an evening of round baling hay.... (more)

Bennet Goldstein, Wisconsin Watch
June 29, 2023
In California, Climate Change Fuels Disasters—and a Push For More Farmworker Protections

For the past two years, farmworkers in California’s Sonoma County have been advocating for stronger... (more)

Will Carruthers
June 13, 2023
Colorado Becomes First State with Right-to-Repair Law

Last week, Colorado governor Jared Polis signed the aptly named Consumer Right to Repair Agricultural... (more)

Emily Baron Cadloff
May 4, 2023
‘Communities, Not Corporations’: Farmers March for Climate Action in D.C.

Hundreds of farmers and farmworkers gathered in Washington, D.C. this week to demand that Congress... (more)

Marin Scotten
March 10, 2023
Farmworkers in Canada Hack Menus, Protest for Better Labor Conditions

In an increasingly urbanized society,  most consumers live detached from the story of their food... (more)

Lindsay Campbell
February 11, 2023
This Bill Could Help Alleviate Agriculture’s Labor Shortage

States and agricultural associations are calling on the US Senate to pass the Farm Workforce... (more)

Shea Swenson
September 4, 2022
California Farmworkers Embark on 335-Mile March for Voting Rights

The United Farm Workers union set out for a 24-day march from Delano to Sacramento,... (more)

Shea Swenson
August 3, 2022
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