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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 ...
3 Decades of NAWS Data Click here to download this blog post as a PDF file September 13, 2021 Demographics. The 2017-18 NAWS found that 68 percent of crop workers were born abroad, including two ...
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 ...
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 ...
Workers on Mexico’s Export Farms November 19, 2019 About 6.5 million workers are employed in Mexico’s agricultural sector, including 3.5 million self-employed farmers and their family members. There ...
US households, what the government calls consumer units, spent an average $615 a year or $12 a week on fresh fruits and vegetables in 2019. Fresh fruits and vegetables are considered labor intensive ...
World wine in 2022-23 Click here to download this blog post as a PDF file January 10, 2024 World wine production exceeds wine consumption, putting downward pressure on wine prices. Global wine ...
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.
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 ...
Food Spending: 2021 Click here to download this blog post as a PDF file October 17, 2022 The US Bureau of Labor Statistics Consumer Expenditure Survey reported that there were 133.6 million US ...
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 ...
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