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Farmers, farmworkers and advocates prepare to battle another scorching Idaho summer

Keeping farmworkers safe from heat-related illnesses is getting harder every year. 

Without serious action on climate change, reports state, extreme heat and weather may make it impossible to grow food — or work outside safely to harvest it.

Idahoans saw signs of this future in the brutal summer of 2021. Now, as the 2022 harvest season approaches, farmers, farmworkers and the organizations that advocate for them are gearing up for another heat wave. 

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