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  • A new study of farmworkers’ general health examined factors contributing to their illness and disease, such as inadequate access to health care.
    Farmworkers at risk for obesity, high blood pressure, say UC researchers

    Dec 19, 2022

    • Health
  • Adding green vegetables to quesadillas is a way to add nutrition to traditional staples.
    UCCE nutrition educators teach farmworker families about healthy eating

    Mar 4, 2021

    • Food
  • Crops that require hand labor are more vulnerable to price fluctuations when immigration policies change.
    Trump presidency and potential impact on food prices

    Dec 6, 2016

  • Farm-worker
    California has a stable farm workforce

    Aug 23, 2016

  • In 2011, of 753 heat enforcement inspections, 76 percent of employers were found to be compliant.
    UC programs provide heat illness prevention training

    Aug 30, 2012

  • Farmworkers harvest strawberries at DB Specialty Farms in Santa Maria.
    Santa Maria farmers and farmworkers assist in UC pesticide-exposure research

    Aug 23, 2012

  • farmworkers
    California farmers fear labor shortage, but experts are skeptical

    Aug 3, 2012

  • The trend toward contracting out labor is, in part, a product of the current economic climate.
    Shift toward hiring through farm labor contractors continuing

    Jan 31, 2012

  • A SAREP study aims to identify challenges facing workers such as lettuce harvesters.
    SAREP launches study to identify farmworker challenges

    Oct 26, 2011

  • Potato harvest on a California farm.
    Illegal workers don't take away jobs Americans want

    Oct 1, 2010

  • The recession contributes to farmworker glut

    Feb 11, 2009

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