While violence against women in agriculture may seem like an issue mainly experienced in developing countries, the truth is that it also happens all too often to women and girls on farms in the United ...

Jess Herr is a fifth-generation farmer who grew up watching her mother work alongside her father as they handpicked tobacco each summer on Southview Farms in West Lampeter Township. Now Herr is the ...

A jury found a farm laborer guilty of murder Friday in the abduction and killing of a University of Iowa student who vanished while out for a run in 2018. (May 28) ...

There's nothing new about women operating U.S. farms. In one form or another, they've always helped to raise crops and tend livestock. But women's role in agriculture and society overall is expanding, ...

More than three-quarters of female farm workers have experienced sexual harassment at work. U.S. lawmakers can and should do more to protect them, say researchers. Farmworkers weed a field of peppers.

Based on smell alone, you’d be forgiven for thinking the office building in downtown Woodburn was a satellite workshop for Santa himself. For five weeks each winter, the smell of pine – or, more ...

MOUNT VERNON — From taking over an heirloom berry farm to starting a flower farm from scratch, some Skagit Valley women are thriving in family farming. These women are proud owners of some of the ...

Ready to forge your future on the farm? Join women from all walks of agriculture at the 2025 Women Managing the Farm Conference, Feb. 13 to 14, in Manhattan. Registration is open now for the annual ...

According to the latest estimates, women comprise more than 40 percent of the global agricultural labor force. In the U.S., approximately one-third of all farm operators are women. Although they only ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. GRAHAM, N.C. (WGHP) — It might not be ...

Aug. 1 (UPI) --Television crime shows often are set in cities, but in its third season, ABC's American Crime took a different tack. It opened on a tomato farm in North Carolina, where it showed a ...