For Mexican Farmworkers, H2A Jobs Come with a Social Cost
A proposed bill could ease their plight.
Agriculture Immigration Law Passes House, Despite Opposition From Conservative Groups
The bill streamlines the guest worker program.
New Documentary ‘Farmsteaders’ Shows the Struggle Small Farms Face in America
The film follows a family trying to reinvent a dairy farm in Ohio.
Farmer Sentiment Is at Its Lowest Point in Three Years
It has been a truly, historically awful year for American farmers.
There Are More Women Farmers Than Ever, But They Make Less Than Men. Why?
The number of female farmers is up by 27 percent in the past five years.
Cultivating Coffee’s Next Generation
Generaciones is a project that focuses on helping the children of coffee producers in Central America’s Trifinio region (parts of El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras) find work in the coffee industry.
What’s Eating America’s Farmers?
The last time the Farm Aid hotline rang like this, Ronald Reagan was president and Willie Nelson was playing a huge concert to raise money for hundreds of thousands of farmers across the country who were facing financial ruin. By the autumn of 1985, America’s “farm crisis” was suddenly a thing.
The Cesar Chavez of West Texas
Carlos Marentes works to protect the rights of El Paso area chili workers—and literally provides a roof over their heads. Modern Farmer spoke to him about the border wall, the forgotten NAFTA-immigration connection and other insights from life near the border.
