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

Migration Dialogue was founded in 1994 to provide reliable and timely analysis of the immigration issues, especially farm labor and agriculture. Immigrants are almost three-fourths of US crop workers, ...

Senators James Lankford (R-OK), Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ), and Chris Murphy (D-CT) negotiated a $118 billion, 370-page bill in February 2024 that included provisions to reduce illegal entries over the ...

The United Farm Workers (UFW) was certified to represent the employees of Olive Hill Nursery in Fallbrook in January 2024 under AB 113 card check procedures after submitting signatures from 47 of the ...

OSHA assessed a Mar-Jac Poultry plant in Mississippi $200,000 in fines for the death of a 16-year-old Guatemalan who was pulled into a deboning machine in July 2023. Onin Staffing provided the ...

The Coalition of Immokalee Workers created the Fair Food Program in 2011 to influence wages and working conditions for farm workers who work on farms that sell to 14 tomato buyers, including Walmart, ...

Bankrupt Fresno-based Prima Wawona laid off 5,400 workers in winter 2024, including 3,750 seasonal workers, and prepared to sell 13,000 acres of farm land, mostly planted to peaches and nectarines ...

World GDP is $110 trillion in 2024, led by $27 trillion in the US, $18 trillion in China, $4.4 trillion each in Germany and Japan, $3.7 trillion in India, and $3 trillion each in the UK and France.

Average global temperatures in 2023 were 1.5C or 2.7F warmer than average temperatures between 1850 and 1900, with uncertainty due to determining the average ocean temperature before 1900. The earth ...

Diary milk sales were $16 billion in 2023, while the value of plant-based milks, including almond, oat, coconut, rice, flax, hemp and soy, was $2.5 billion. Milk producers want non-dairy milks to ...

US food prices rose 25 percent during covid, and have been slow to fall in 2023-24. Many people consider the prices of milk, eggs, and other staples to be the best indicator of inflation, and the ...