farm workers

The 2023 law was part of a years-long effort by Gov. Ron DeSantis and the Republican-controlled Legislature to crack down on illegal immigration.

In Marion County, the crash killed eight farmworkers and injured dozens as the workers were traveling in a bus to a farm in Dunnellon.

The driver of a pickup truck that crashed into the farmworker bus faces eight counts of DUI-manslaughter.

Florida passed in 2023 one of the strictest immigration laws in the country, and now businesses struggle to find workers in several sectors of the economy

The Miami-Dade County Commission withdrew the bill because they couldn’t legally pass it after Florida’s legislature passed a bill banning any local government from setting their own heat enforcement rules.

Naples photographer Michelle Tricca is working to alter the perception of Immokalee, Florida with larger-than-life murals. “The Face of Immokalee” is an effort to honor, humanize and put a face to the people of the predominantly agricultural community.

A non-profit urban farm partners with city and community stakeholders to produce a food forest that aims to address the city's food desert.

Florida Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried is creating a new council that will look at the everyday challenges of farmworkers. That includes access to healthcare, living conditions, and more.

A federal judge has halted a loan forgiveness program meant to help minority farmers who faced discrimination from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The program has faced blowback from white farmers but Florida’s Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried has spoken in support of the program.

WFSU News interviews Jeannie Economos, pesticide health and safety project coordinator with the Farmworker Association of Florida, following a recent federal court ruling that rejected the EPA's registration of aldicarb for use on the state's citrus.

These women search for farmworkers’ children, to help educate them. COVID-19 made their jobs harder.

An investigation found that inequality is fueling heat-related illnesses across the state, Fort Pierce is the hottest ZIP code in Florida, and the government and medical community are both not doing enough for what is referred to by farmworkers as “being caught by the bear.”