The Coalition of Immokalee Workers has become the most successful farmworkers union since the heyday of the United Farm Workers in the late 60s and early 70s (before Cesar Chavez.
For our latest podcast, we talked to Pamela Riney-Kehrberg from Iowa State University about her recent book When a Dream Dies: Agriculture, Iowa, and the Farm Crisis of the 1980s..
(GERMANY OUT) Agriculture in the Central Valley. This canal is part of the California Aqueduct, a system of canals, tunnels and pipelines that conveys water collected from the Sierra Nevada.
A world without chiles is not a world worth living in. And they are at serious risk due to climate change. In 1999, Susan Lin, a bespectacled plant researcher at.
The farm states are freaking out because the rise of electric vehicles could undermine their model of plowing up half the nation for corn that we don't need and thus.
I remain amused and frustrated over the conversation about labor shortages at the same time that there are millions of people desperate to enter the United States. But is alleviating.
We talk a lot about the housing problems of the contemporary cities. But it's not only the cities. At least in some places, it is also a big problem in.
This is the grave of Gilbert Haugen. Born outside of Orfordville, Wisconsin in 1859, he attended the local schools and then in 1873, the family moved to Decorah, Iowa. He.
