As heat gets more extreme, pregnant farmworkers are increasingly at risk

One study found that agricultural workers had more than 35 times the risk of heat-related deaths than other workers. But ...
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South African farm worker describes how women fed to pigs to 'dispose of evidence'

A South African farm worker has described to a court how he was forced by his boss to feed the bodies of two black women to pigs in an attempt to hide evidence after they were shot. Adrian de Wet, 21, ...
AG Week

Woman Farmer of the Year honor goes to ... Kris Huebsch of Otter Berry Farm

MORGAN, Minn. — Kris Huebsch said she was surprised and humbled to be named 2025 Minnesota Farmfest Woman Farmer of the Year Thursday, Aug. 7, on the final day of Farmfest. "So many women do so much ...
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Lawmakers eye immigrant farmworker legal status, protections

(The Center Square) – Bipartisan lawmakers reintroduced a bill designed to give immigrant farm workers an opportunity to pursue temporary legal status in the United States. The Farm Workforce ...
The Salt Lake Tribune

‘She cried with women all over the world’ — Farm girl who became LDS Church’s top female leader dies

At 7:45 a.m. on the Monday after the 2002 Winter Olympics had ended in an explosion of fireworks, an exhausted Bonnie and Jim Parkin were asleep in their Salt Lake City home when the phone rang. It ...