“We left the crop there lying in the field”: Agricultural worker experiences with the COVID-19 pandemic in a rural US-Mexico border region

Quandt, Amy; Keeney, Annie J.; Flores, Luis; Flores, Daniela; Villaseñor, Mercy

doi:10.1016/j.jrurstud.2022.09.039

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“…Findings in this article also are consistent with recent work that suggests that targeted policies based on vulnerabilities can minimize disparate impacts of a public health shock. Qualitative interviews of Latino workers near the U.S.-Mexico border, for example, revealed the critical role of Spanish-speaking community-based organizations (Quandt et al 2022 ). Other research determined that web-based Spanish-speaking health information was limited during COVID-19 (Kusters et al 2022 ).…”

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Labor Impacts of COVID-19 in U.S. Agriculture: Evidence from the Current Population Survey

Pena

2023

J Labor Res

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Early research hypothesized impacts of COVID-19 on agricultural workers, food supply, and rural health systems based on population characteristics from data collected preceding the pandemic. Trends confirmed a vulnerable workforce and limits to field sanitation, housing quality, and healthcare. Less is known about eventual, realized impacts. This article uses the Current Population Survey’s COVID-19 monthly core variables from May 2020 through September 2022 to document actual impacts. Summary statistics and statistical models for the probability of being unable to work reveal that 6 to 8% of agricultural workers were unable to work early in the pandemic and that impacts were disproportionately negative for Hispanics and those with children. An implication is that targeted policies based on vulnerabilities may minimize disparate impacts of a public health shock. Understanding the full impacts of COVID-19 on essential labor remains important for economics, public policy, and food systems in addition to public health.

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Labor Impacts of COVID-19 in U.S. Agriculture: Evidence from the Current Population Survey

Pena

2023

J Labor Res

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“…From in silico studies, in addition to the activation of the BRI1 protein, an effect on auxins and strigolactone receptors was detected and evaluated in vitro [8]. However, these studies need to be scaled up to an agricultural level to determine their behavior in an uncontrolled, real environment and to determine the relationship between these pathways and their application to increase agricultural production [15]. It is impor-tant to highlight that for most Mexican farmers, it is important to have an improvement in native grains, given that these are planted year after year.…”

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Evaluation of the Plant Growth Regulator SPGP4 in Agricultural Crops: A Case Study in Oaxaca, México

López-Castillo,

Wong-Villareal,

Castellanos-Moguel

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The search for new plant growth regulators is a cornerstone of agricultural research; however, laboratory studies rarely go on to be evaluated in the field. This is because greater production is required, as well as longer studies. Particularly, brassinosteroids present these difficulties, and although they have been evaluated in crops with good results, their high production cost gives rise to the search for new alternatives. 22-Oxocholestanes such as SPGP4, previously used in silico and in vitro studies, have shown great potential, so their evaluation in crops grown from native seeds from the study region becomes of interest. Based on these data, SPGP4 was evaluated under crop conditions in three agricultural plots located on the Isthmus of Tehuantepec region, Oaxaca, México. The seeds were treated with a 0.5 mg/L aqueous solution of the 22-Oxocholestane compound SPGP4 by imbibition one night before sown. Later, 45 days after sowing, a solution of 0.5 mg/L at a rate of 200 L per hectare was applied. At the production level, the bean harvest showed an increase in the range of 21.0–38.1%, and the corn harvest increased between 22 and 32%. In addition, the latter also demonstrated an increase in biomass production, given the increase in diameter and height observed in the corn plant. This indicates that SPGP4 functions as a regulator of plant growth at the crop level to increase both seed and biomass production.

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“You have to be resilient”: Producer perspectives to navigating a changing agricultural system in California, USA

Quandt

2023

Agricultural Systems

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“We left the crop there lying in the field”: Agricultural worker experiences with the COVID-19 pandemic in a rural US-Mexico border region

Cited by 7 publications

References 39 publications

Labor Impacts of COVID-19 in U.S. Agriculture: Evidence from the Current Population Survey

Labor Impacts of COVID-19 in U.S. Agriculture: Evidence from the Current Population Survey

Evaluation of the Plant Growth Regulator SPGP4 in Agricultural Crops: A Case Study in Oaxaca, México

“You have to be resilient”: Producer perspectives to navigating a changing agricultural system in California, USA

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