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Louisiana sugarcane workers sue Lowry Farms for wage theft, breach of contract

08.11.2020
H. Claire Brown
In a first, Michigan orders farms and meatpacking plants to test workers for Covid-19
08.10.2020
by Sam Bloch
Black farmers’ markets work to “redesign the food system”
08.10.2020
by Grace Abels
Investors and pension funds are buying up farmland. What happens to the land itself?
08.04.2020
by The Counter
A few farmers get huge USDA relief payments while many struggle for pennies
07.30.2020
by H. Claire Brown
New Bayer-engineered seed is resistant to five different types of pesticide
07.10.2020
by Johnathan Hettinger
Florida farm workers endure 116 dangerously hot working days every growing season. Laws to protect them have failed three years in a row.
07.07.2020
by Sam Bloch
For many migrant teens in California, school closures led to work in the fields
06.23.2020
by Elizabeth Aguilera
Dicamba has killed tens of millions of trees across the Midwest and South
06.22.2020
by Johnathan Hettinger
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