Trump in August 2026 lifted tariffs on 660 million pounds of foreign beef to reduce retail meat prices. The US cattle herd is at a 75-year low due to drought, market uncertainty and high feed costs, ...

The EU’s Entry/Exit System collects biometric data including photos and fingerprints from non-EU citizens entering and exiting the 29-nation Schengen area. After the EES was activated in April 2026, ...

Alaska has 365 million acres. A million Alaska acres typically burn in wildfires each year; a record 6.6 million acres burned in 2004 and five million acres burned in 2015, but fewer than 100,000 ...

The legacy of Cesar Chavez continues to be debated. A woman volunteer sued the UFW and affiliated UFW foundations in September 2026 alleging that Chavez raped her in 1973. The Cesar Chavez Foundation ...

The number of unauthorized foreigners rose from about 11 million between 2010 and 2020 to almost 16 million in 2024, including a jump of 1.6 million between 2022 and 2023. Mexicans were almost ...

The US refused to renew the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement or USMCA in July 2026, opting for annual renewals instead of the 15-year renewal embodied in the treaty. Two-way trade between Canada ...

Hooker, Brandon, Philip Martin, Zachariah Rutledge, and Marc Stockton. 2024. [url=https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9p8710qt]California has 882,000 farmworkers to fill ...

The H-2A and H-2B programs admit foreign guest workers to fill seasonal farm and nonfarm jobs, respectively. The H-2 program was created in 1952 by the Immigration and Nationality Act (Public Law ...

Census of Agriculture data released in February 2024 found that US farm sales were $543 billion in 2022, including $280 billion or 52 percent from the sale of crops and $260 billion from the sale of ...

World wine production exceeds wine consumption, putting downward pressure on wine prices. Global wine production was 258 million hectoliters or 6.9 billion gallons in 2022, while global wine ...

Many small island nations offer golden passports that grant citizenship in exchange for donations or investments of $100,000 to $1 million. Many industrial countries including the US offer investors ...

Five million Mexican-born farm workers are employed on North American farms sometime during a typical year, including 50,000 in Canada, three million in Mexico, and two million in the US. Most Mexican ...