Canadian snowboarder Ryan Wedding (Thor) was arrested in Mexico in January 2026, charged with operating a cocaine-trafficking network. Mexico. The United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) will be ...

AB 1066, enacted in 2016, phased in overtime pay for farm workers on the same basis as nonfarm workers. All farm employers had to pay farm workers overtime wages on 8/40 basis beginning January 1, ...

Almost 13 million people or 30 percent of Thailand’s 42 million strong labor force are employed in agriculture. Most of those employed in Thai agriculture are self-employed Thai farmers and their ...

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 ...

The UFW persuaded the Legislature to amend the ALRA several times. In 2002, the ALRA was amended to provide for Mandatory Mediation and Conciliation (MMC) if certified unions could not negotiate ...

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 ...

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 ...

Florida agriculture is unlike agriculture elsewhere because most of the state’s fruits and vegetables are harvested during the winter months, when crop production in other states is low but fruit and ...

Demographics. The 2017-18 NAWS found that 68 percent of crop workers were born abroad, including two thirds who were born in Mexico, so that 44 percent of all crop workers are Mexican-born. Almost ...

Employment in California agriculture (NAICS 11) averaged 404,000 in 2020, 10 percent more than average agricultural employment of 367,000 in 1990. Seasonality, as measured by the peak-trough ratio or ...

California agriculture employs up to 900,000 workers sometime during a typical year to fill 425,000 full-time equivalent jobs, that is, average employment is 425,000, but more than twice this many ...

US agriculture is a 50/50 industry, meaning that half of farm sales are from crops and half are the sale of animal products. California agriculture is a 70/30 state, meaning that 70 percent of farm ...