NYS Farmworker Demographics
The first step of this two part research project is to identify the various sources of demographic data that currently exist on migrant and seasonal agricultural workers in New York State. This phase of the project involves contacting agencies throughout the state, including the Department of Health, Migrant Education Program, Department of Labor, Subsidy Database and Cornell Cooperative Extension and gathering what information they have available. Using this data, the goal is to put together a commodity timeline and map for each county showing the number of farms that employ migrant or seasonal farmworkers and the crops that these farms harvest and produce throughout the year. The second step of this project will be to identify the holes that exist in the available data and develop a more streamlined research method to collect accurate demographic data on migrant and seasonal farmworkers in the state.

