Farms that participate in the Fair Food Program ensure workers have access to things like shade and water. In return, they’re first in line to sell to big buyers.

Hurricane Irma damaged or destroyed already dilapidated trailer homes in Immokalee, Florida, in 2017. An effort to build permanent affordable housing is now getting off the ground.

The country is starting to beef up inspections and is looking at a process to set standards for housing farmworkers who are in the country on temporary visas.

As much as 18% of the U.S. agricultural and farmworker population has tested positive for COVID-19 compared to 5% of the general population.