USDA Pushing Farm Safety
The US Department of Agriculture is redoubling an ongoing effort to improve farm safety, particularly among young farmers. For the past thirty years, child agricultural labor laws have remain unchanged…
Safety Advocates Still Push for Child Labor Reforms
Despite the failure of the Labor Department to tighten child labor regulations a few years ago, some safety advocacy organizations are still pushing for new federal reforms, claiming that farming…
Farm Injuries a Part of Agricultural Life
Despite efforts by the federal government to regulate farm safety, many farmers across the country have largely accepted that accidents and injuries are an unavoidable part of agricultural life and…
Farmers Work to Improve Safety
Despite the failure of the US Department of Labor to increase safety regulations and limit the ability of underage children to work certain agricultural jobs, US farmers have made a…
Groups Push for Child Farm Labor Reform
Despite the failure of Labor Secretary Hilda Solis’ efforts to reform agricultural child labor laws, human rights groups and labor organizations are still pressuring President Obama to tighten farm labor…
Farm Fatalities on the Decline
In 2011, farms across the United States reported a major drop in farm related fatalities of all ages. The figures suggest that farmers were right last year when they claimed…
Representative Pushes to Ban Child Labor
A California Representative is pushing to strengthen labor protections for children working in agricultural jobs, congressional insiders say. Late last year, the Labor Department proposed new regulations for agricultural child…
Iowa Study Looks at Child Safety
An Iowa study is investigating possible safety enhancements that could be made to farm equipment to lower child worker injury rates. The study comes shortly after a contentious battle over…
House Blocks Labor Rule
Earlier this week the House of Representatives voted to block the Department of Labor from implementing new regulations of child labor on farms. Earlier this year, the Labor Department considered,…
Farmers Remain Divided on Child Labor
Months after the Department of Labor backed off plans to increase regulation of child labor on most farms, the agricultural community remains divided on the issue, with some farmers pleased…