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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The objective of the paper will be to examine changes in usage of farm labor, including hired and contract labor, other inputs, and technology and in aggregated agricultural output and productivity ...

Health Care Access in California’s Mexican Immigrant Communities..... 2 MSSA Name..... 3 Population (1990)..... 3 Foreign-born workers are now recognized to be the secret ingredient of the one of the ...

California had average precipitation during the 2023-24 water year; southern California had more than normal precipitation. The state’s dams and ...

The U.S. is the world's second leading mushroom producer, with 17 percent of the world's 4.5 billion pounds in 1995; second only toChina, the leader since 1991 (figure 1). U.S. mushroom production ...

Agricultural employers often have preconceived notions about what motivates migrants, as well as a lack of understanding of fundamental management principles. Education and research can dispel many of ...

Smuggling is one of the world’s oldest professions. When nation states established borders and sought to regulate traffic across them, they created markets for the smuggling of humans as well as goods ...

The Issue. Implicit in many parts of the Plan of Action from the 1998 Santiago Summit of the Americas Declaration is the need for more consistent and more professional enforcement of laws that have a ...