Farm Workers Institute for Education & Leadership Development (FIELD) has diligently worked to implement a program that benefits the rural economic sector in and around the state. It is called Strengthen Our Agribusiness Region, or SOAR. FIELD has engaged in building a consortium of employers from the dominant economic sector, agricultural, as well as training providers, academia, public-sector agencies, and workforce representatives. FIELD has also developed an economic strategy that involves both the growers and the workforce to improve productivity through a better educated and trained workforce that produces value-added commodities. The key is to ensure that the economic gains generated from the premiums “pass through” the distributors and retailers and back to the producers - both growers and their workforce. Additionally, SOAR has developed a pilot program that aims to improve the quality of employment opportunities to attain economic self-sufficiency.