Wine. World wine consumption was 215 million hectoliters in 2024, including 33 million hectoliters consumed in the US and 23 million consumed in France. Rising consumption outside Europe cannot offset ...

Carey McWilliams once said that farm labor in California has "been lost sight of and rediscovered time and again." (quoted in Loftis, p191) Three recent books make important contributions to our ...

Unions: 10% of US Workers, 1% of Farm Workers Click here to download this blog post as a PDF file April 7, 2023 The share of US workers who were union members fell to 10 percent in 2022, down from 20 ...

CA Farm Employment: Growing and Less Seasonal Click here to download this blog post as a PDF file October 10, 2023 Employment in California agriculture (NAICS 11) averaged 404,000 in 2020, 10 percent ...

The H-2A Program in 2022 Click here to download this blog post as a PDF file May 16, 2022 The H-2A program allows US farmers who anticipate shortages of seasonal workers to be certified by DOL to ...

US Immigration in 2025 Click here to download this blog post as a PDF file January 13, 2025 The US has 50 million or almost 20 percent of the world’s 280 million international migrants, far more than ...

World wine in 2022-23 Click here to download this blog post as a PDF file January 10, 2024 World wine production exceeds wine consumption, putting downward pressure on wine prices. Global wine ...

US Imports of Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Click here to download this blog post as a PDF file February 24, 2021 The US imports almost two-thirds of its fresh fruit and one-third of its fresh vegetables.

3 Decades of NAWS Data Click here to download this blog post as a PDF file September 13, 2021 Demographics. The 2017-18 NAWS found that 68 percent of crop workers were born abroad, including two ...

Food Spending and Farm Wages: 2019 Click here to download this blog post as a PDF file October 13, 2020 The US Bureau of Labor Statistic's Consumer Expenditure Survey reported a total of 132 million ...

FAO: Ag employs 27% of world’s workers, generates 4% of GDP Click here to download this blog post as a PDF file January 12, 2021 Agriculture employed a quarter of the world’s workers in 2019. The ...

H-2A: 372,000 jobs certified in FY22 Click here to download this blog post as a PDF file December 19, 2022 The H-2A program allows US farmers who anticipate shortages of seasonal workers to be ...