Wine. World wine consumption was 215 million hectoliters in 2024, including 33 million hectoliters consumed in the US and 23 million consumed in France. Rising consumption outside Europe cannot offset ...

Beef. Trump wants the EU to buy more American beef despite EU regulations that ban beef from cows that are given hormones to promote faster growth. The EU has about nine million farms for 450 million ...

Fogbow is a private, for-profit company that uses ex-US Special Forces staff to distribute food aid in places such as South Sudan. Established aid groups warn that for-profit private firms risk ...

Card check allows farm worker unions to be recognized as the representative of workers on a farm with worker signatures rather than a secret ballot election. since 2023, The UFW was certified to ...

Carey McWilliams once said that farm labor in California has "been lost sight of and rediscovered time and again." (quoted in Loftis, p191) Three recent books make important contributions to our ...

The H-2A Program in 2022 Click here to download this blog post as a PDF file May 16, 2022 The H-2A program allows US farmers who anticipate shortages of seasonal workers to be certified by DOL to ...

US Immigration in 2025 Click here to download this blog post as a PDF file January 13, 2025 The US has 50 million or almost 20 percent of the world’s 280 million international migrants, far more than ...

Beer. Alcoholic beverages are included with horticultural imports, and they are worth $26 billion a year, about the same as fresh fruit and vegetable imports. Mexico is the world’s leading exporter of ...

Unions: 10% of US Workers, 1% of Farm Workers Click here to download this blog post as a PDF file April 7, 2023 The share of US workers who were union members fell to 10 percent in 2022, down from 20 ...

CA Farm Employment: Growing and Less Seasonal Click here to download this blog post as a PDF file October 10, 2023 Employment in California agriculture (NAICS 11) averaged 404,000 in 2020, 10 percent ...

Overtime and California Farm Workers March 17, 2020 AB 1066, the Phase-In Overtime for Agricultural Workers Act enacted in 2016, requires large farm employers to pay overtime wages to workers after ...

US Imports of Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Click here to download this blog post as a PDF file February 24, 2021 The US imports almost two-thirds of its fresh fruit and one-third of its fresh vegetables.