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The H-2A visa program has failed to protect migrant farmworkers from wage theft, forced labor, violence and death.
Here’s what experts, lawyers and advocates think would make the program safer.
https://www.propublica.org/article/h-2a-farmworker-visa-safety-suggestions-experts?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News#Immigration#Farming#Agriculture#Immigrants#Visa#Labor#Safety
Javier Sanchez Mendoza Jr. helped Sofi secure an H-2A visa, promising a job on a Georgia blueberry farm.
When she arrived, she was not sent out to work in the fields like the others. She was forced to live at his house and sign a marriage license.
https://projects.propublica.org/h2a-visa-farmworkers-operation-blooming-onion/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
Javier Sanchez Mendoza Jr. helped Sofi secure an H-2A visa, promising a job on a Georgia blueberry farm.
When she arrived, she was not sent out to work in the fields like the others. She was forced to live at his house and sign a marriage license.
https://projects.propublica.org/h2a-visa-farmworkers-operation-blooming-onion/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
For Blake Gerard, a fourth-generation farmer working the flood-prone fields of the Mississippi River bottomlands in Alexander County, Ill., there was no sense in fighting nature.
“I could grow something that would grow in water,” he said. Or quit.
https://www.propublica.org/article/illinois-farming-rice-soy-corn-flooding-mississippi-river?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News#Illinois#Farming#Agriculture#Climate#ClimateChange#Flood
Why Some Farmers Are Stuck Raising Crops That No Longer Thrive
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Some farmers keep growing in flood- and drought-prone fields because subsidies soften the losses, while federal programs meant to help them change course have been underfunded and mired in bureaucracy. Under Trump, those programs may weaken further.
For Blake Gerard, a fourth-generation farmer working the flood-prone fields of the Mississippi River bottomlands in Alexander County, Ill., there was no sense in fighting nature.
“I could grow something that would grow in water,” he said. Or quit.
https://www.propublica.org/article/illinois-farming-rice-soy-corn-flooding-mississippi-river?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News#Illinois#Farming#Agriculture#Climate#ClimateChange#Flood
Why Some Farmers Are Stuck Raising Crops That No Longer Thrive
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Some farmers keep growing in flood- and drought-prone fields because subsidies soften the losses, while federal programs meant to help them change course have been underfunded and mired in bureaucracy. Under Trump, those programs may weaken further.
Fonterra’s $3.845 billion windfall sale proceeds should be used to remediate damage they’ve done to rivers, and to help farmers shift away from intensive dairy to more plant-based regenerative organic farming — not more irrigation schemes and intensification.
#TooManyCows#NZPol #farming
Fonterra’s $3.845 billion windfall sale proceeds should be used to remediate damage they’ve done to rivers, and to help farmers shift away from intensive dairy to more plant-based regenerative organic farming — not more irrigation schemes and intensification.
#TooManyCows#NZPol #farming
When we pass Neville's farm at Lingy Hill his young cows are sometimes on the road. The toll to get further along is a nose stroke. This is 'Temptation' sniffing my hand.
I can resist everything except...
#CowsOfMastodon#Farming
When we pass Neville's farm at Lingy Hill his young cows are sometimes on the road. The toll to get further along is a nose stroke. This is 'Temptation' sniffing my hand.
I can resist everything except...
#CowsOfMastodon#Farming
"Farmers will come in the pub on a Friday night and say: ‘The public don’t care as long as it’s cheap.’ Which is absolute crap. And the public will say: ‘You never see a farmer on his bike – [instead] driving around in Range Rovers shouting “get off my land!"‘ Which is also crap"
A very good article on modern farming in the UK.
"Farmers will come in the pub on a Friday night and say: ‘The public don’t care as long as it’s cheap.’ Which is absolute crap. And the public will say: ‘You never see a farmer on his bike – [instead] driving around in Range Rovers shouting “get off my land!"‘ Which is also crap"
A very good article on modern farming in the UK.
“Rewilding #farms and forming symbiotic relationships with the natural world is easier than fighting or trying to control it,” Miller says.
“When we pay attention and respect the beauty of that #ecology and learn to work with it instead of against it, there are benefits to land, water, plants, animals and humans.”
#rewilding #farming #wildfarms #nature #wildfarming
https://www.rewildingmag.com/wild-farming-benefits-crops-and-ecosystems-too/
“Rewilding #farms and forming symbiotic relationships with the natural world is easier than fighting or trying to control it,” Miller says.
“When we pay attention and respect the beauty of that #ecology and learn to work with it instead of against it, there are benefits to land, water, plants, animals and humans.”
#rewilding #farming #wildfarms #nature #wildfarming
https://www.rewildingmag.com/wild-farming-benefits-crops-and-ecosystems-too/
Today, I'm dealing with other kinds of problems.
Will Harris writes some of the most important things on mid-scale farming. If you're interested in food sovereignty, sustainable and regenerative farming, and how families and communities reliant on agriculture can thrive, he's one of my go-tos.
https://blog.whiteoakpastures.com/blog/food-dollar
#farming #holisticmanagement #sustainablefarming #regenerativeagriculture
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