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.

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 ...

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 ...

California had farm sales of $59 billion in 2023, led by $8.1 billion worth of milk; $6.5 billion worth of grapes; $4.8 billion of cattle and calves; and $3.9 billion each of lettuce and almonds. The ...

The ALRB finalized card-check rules in December 2024 that require unions to state explicitly that signing a card is a vote for the union and requires employers to provide unions within 48 hours with ...

Pact. The EU Pact on Migration and Asylum approved in April 2024 aims to reduce the arrival of illegal migrants who request asylum. The 10-section Pact aims to “secure European borders…implement ...

SB 1718 requires employers of 26 or more workers to use E-Verify to check the status of newly hired workers. Miami-Dade county has an estimated 60,000 farm, construction and other outdoor workers, ...

Donald Trump was elected president in November 2024, receiving 312 electoral votes to 226 for Kamala Harris and winning the seven battleground states. Republicans also took control of the Senate 53-47 ...

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, ...