farmworkers

Florida's farms and seasonal businesses, which lead the nation in using legal H-2A visa workers, face a new challenge. Industry leaders reported media coverage of immigration enforcement is creating fear, making it harder to recruit legal seasonal workers.

Florida’s fields feed much of the nation, but for the workers tending its crops, extreme heat often turns a day’s labor into a serious health risk. A new documentary examines the challenges of working outdoors as temperatures rise and legal protections erode.

For pregnant agricultural workers, those risks are higher because the body must work harder to cool down and requires more liquids, making it more easily dehydrated.

The Trump administration’s mass deportation campaign has not spared the U.S. agricultural industry, with agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement frequently raiding farms across the country in search of undocumented workers. Now, farmers are facing a crisis the administration has helped create: not enough people to pick crops.

The U.S. has an important choice to make regarding agriculture. It can import more people to pick crops and do other kinds of agricultural labor, it can raise wages enough to lure more U.S. citizens and immigrants with legal status to take these jobs, or it can import more food.

A farmworker housing bill, unanimously passed by the Florida House and Senate, was vetoed by Gov. DeSantis. He cited "illegal foreign workers" in his veto letter.

Eleven counts of DUI with serious bodily injury have been filed against Bryan Howard, already facing eight counts of DUI-manslaughter in the May 14 crash.

A new study is looking into the people and places that make up Miami-Dade County's migrant farmworker communities — and their historical significance to the region.

A man with a record of dangerous driving told investigators he smoked marijuana oil and took prescription drugs hours before he sideswiped a bus, killing eight Mexican farmworkers in Ocala.

Florida’s agriculture industry hopes a newly passed bill that would limit local regulations on farmworker housing will bring in more non-immigrant foreign workers.

A legalization path for farmworkers failed to pass this month and faces an even steeper climb in a Republican-controlled House in the next Congress.

The Florida Department of Agriculture & Consumer Services rolled out a new initiative aimed at helping farmworkers connect with mental health resources.