Source: KEYT.COM | May 29, 2020
VENTURA COUNTY, Calif. – Many agricultural workers in Ventura County would like their children to get a higher education, but cost and an overall understanding of how to apply for college may make it difficult.
CSU Channel Islands (CSUCI) University …
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RAC’s Health and Wellbeing Program Reinforces Support for Farmworker Community
May 26, 2020 – (Oxnard, California) – Reiter Affiliated Companies (RAC), the largest fresh multi-berry producer, reinforces commitment to supporting the health, happiness and wellbeing of their farmworker community as …
RAC Makes Strawberry Donations to Continue Supporting Communities Amid COVID-19 Crisis
May 22, 2020 (Oxnard, California) – Reiter Affiliated Companies (RAC), the largest fresh multi-berry producer, is committed to supporting the communities where they operate. The need for help is …
RAC Supports Emergency Responders On Frontline Of The Coronavirus Crisis
(Oxnard, California) – Reiter Affiliated Companies (RAC), the largest fresh multi-berry producer, reinforces their relentess pusuit to help enrich the communities where it operates by supporting emergency responders with a …
Source: USATODAY.COM | April 4, 2020
Restaurants have been shuttered for weeks. Farms have been struggling with labor shortages for years. And grocery stores have been running out of bread, meat and eggs.
So what does that all mean for the national food supply during the …
Source: USATODAY.COM
Source: NYTIMES.COM | April 3, 2020
LOS ANGELES — Like legions of immigrant farmworkers, Nancy Silva for years has done the grueling work of picking fresh fruit that Americans savor, all the while afraid that one day she could lose her livelihood because she is in …
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Source: WASHINGTONPOST.COM | April 2, 2020
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Before heading out with his crew of farmworkers, field lead Carlos Garcia donned a blue button-up shirt, a jacket, jeans and work boots. He washed his hands before slipping gloves over them.
He washed his hands when he got to …
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Source: VCSTAR.COM | March 26, 2020
Freddy Urbano, a farmworker at Underwood Family Farms, thinks about the coronavirus a lot. He follows all the recommended precautions and worries that if a lot of people get infected, his work could be impacted.
In the fields, farmworkers now …
Source: VCSTAR.COM