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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

FAO: Ag employs 27% of world’s workers, generates 4% of GDP Click here to download this blog post as a PDF file January 12, 2021 Agriculture employed a quarter of the world’s workers in 2019. The ...

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 ...

Labor in Fruit and Vegetable Agriculture Click here to download this blog post as a PDF file November 20, 2020 US households, what the government calls consumer units, spent an average $615 a year or ...

Lettuce Production and Trade January 19, 2022 Lettuces, including head (iceberg) and leaf (romaine, butterhead, baby, and other leaf types), are the most valuable US vegetable. Most US lettuce is ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

H-2A: Growth and Reform Click here to download this blog post as a PDF file December 30, 2021 DOL certified over 317,000 seasonal farm jobs to be filled by H-2A workers in FY21, up 15 percent from 275 ...

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.