Legal immigration was 1.1 million a year under Biden, 1.1 million foreign students were in the US in 2023-24, and almost 3.5 ...

Post-1965 immigration has changed the rural midwest in both subtle and dramatic ways. Since 1980, the local expansion of meatpacking has reinvigorated southwest Kansas communities, attracting ...

Los Angeles county, the most populous in the US with 10 million residents, was ravaged by wildfires in January 2025. Pacific Palisades, Altadena and other cities were in the path of a ring of fires ...

Contact us at plmartin@ucdavis.edu. Past projects include: Farm Labor and Mexican Produce Exports, the Changing Face of Rural America, Research & Seminars, and the Sloan West Coast Program on Science ...

Trump advisors drew up plans to deport unauthorized foreigners in the US and to reduce legal immigration, which averages 1.1 million a year. Some of these policies were tried and blocked by courts ...

The US has nine million dairy cows, two-thirds on farms with 1,000 or more cows and 1.7 million or 20 percent in California. Bird flu was found in 645 of the state?s herds, many in the leading dairy ...

About half of the fresh fruit and a quarter of the fresh vegetables consumed in the US are imported. Half of fresh fruit imports and three-fourths of fresh vegetable imports are from Mexico. Mexico's ...

The H-2A Program: GAO and AEWRs, The H-2A program allows US farm employers who anticipate shortages of seasonal workers to be certified by DOL to recruit and employ H-2A workers to fill seasonal farm ...

Trump 2.0 could freeze or eliminate the AEWR, a special minimum wage higher than federal or state minimum wages and must be paid to H-2As, open year-round farm jobs to H-2As, and allow farmers to ...

The average retail price of beef topped $8 a pound in summer 2024, reflecting drought in the western states that reduced forage and increased feed costs and prompting farmers to reduce their herds.

Farm labor contractors (FLCs) are labor market intermediaries who recruit, supervise, and pay farm workers. DOL’s Wage and Hour Division defines a FLC as “a person or business who recruits, solicits, ...