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 ...

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 ...

Deportations, Farm Workers, and Consumers Click here to download this blog post as a PDF file July 16, 2025 Agriculture employs 2.5 million workers sometime during each year, including about 850,000 ...

in 2025 Florida enacted a law that made it illegal to enter Florida for two reasons, 1) after illegally entering the US or 2) after being deported from the US. Suspected violators must be jailed ...

Meatpacking plants have long relied on immigrant workers to staff dis-assembly lines that extract cuts of meat from carcasses. The Big Four meatpackers, JBS, Tyson Foods, Cargill, and National Beef, ...

In 2014, farmers received $4 a pound for almonds, but by 2025 the price was less than $2 a pound, leading to farm bankruptcies. The sale of orchards from bankrupt operations reduced land prices from ...

The US exports 15 percent of its corn and 40 percent of its soybeans; the US sold $13 billion worth of soybeans to China in 2024, mostly used to feed Chinese chickens and hogs. The China-US tariff war ...

EU member states approve 45 percent of asylum applicants for some form of protection, higher than the 25 percent approval rate in the US. However, 90 percent of the rejected asylum applicants remain ...

California agriculture employs a third of US hired workers because its Mediterranean climate and infrastructure allow the production of high-value fruit, vegetable, and horticultural specialty (FVH) ...

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 ...