As U.S. Rep. Yadira Caraveo works with House colleagues to improve a visa program for foreign agricultural workers, she'll consider ways to improve communication for everyone involved in the program, how the program might be expanded to operators who are currently excluded and how wages are calculated within the program.
Mexico City, Apr 27 (Prensa Latina) Mexico, Colombia and Cuba formalized the Latin American and Caribbean Medicines agency (Amlac) with the signing of the Acapulco Declaration that includes details and commitments of the common initiative.
Labor Department officials oversee state counterparts who are supposed to ensure states protect farmworkers from unsafe housing, wage theft and other abuses.
With the cost of farmland up by more than 8% percent in North Carolina, the state s Black farmers are struggling to purchase additional acreage or jumpstart their farming dreams. Demi Tucker, owner of Uyoga Farms and a fifth-generation Black farmer, grows mushrooms on her family s land in Steadman. She said most farmers she knows are leasing and looking to expand, but finding themselves competing with investors and corporations swooping up large tracts. .
Farmers, ranchers and livestock producers are working with solar companies in Iowa to find multiple uses for land once used only to plant corn and soybeans. Some are investing in what s known as "dual-use solar" or agrivoltaics. They are cultivating profitable crops, grazing livestock, even raising healthier honeybees, all in the shadows of solar panels. .