Trump in August 2026 lifted tariffs on 660 million pounds of foreign beef to reduce retail meat prices. The US cattle herd is at a 75-year low due to drought, market uncertainty and high feed costs, ...

The EU’s Entry/Exit System collects biometric data including photos and fingerprints from non-EU citizens entering and exiting the 29-nation Schengen area. After the EES was activated in April 2026, ...

The US refused to renew the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement or USMCA in July 2026, opting for annual renewals instead of the 15-year renewal embodied in the treaty. Two-way trade between Canada ...

Alaska has 365 million acres. A million Alaska acres typically burn in wildfires each year; a record 6.6 million acres burned in 2004 and five million acres burned in 2015, but fewer than 100,000 ...

The legacy of Cesar Chavez continues to be debated. A woman volunteer sued the UFW and affiliated UFW foundations in September 2026 alleging that Chavez raped her in 1973. The Cesar Chavez Foundation ...

The number of unauthorized foreigners rose from about 11 million between 2010 and 2020 to almost 16 million in 2024, including a jump of 1.6 million between 2022 and 2023. Mexicans were almost ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Agriculture employed a quarter of the world’s workers in 2019. The share of the world’s workers employed in agriculture fell from 1.1 billion or 40 percent of 2.6 billion workers in 2000 to 884 ...

Countries with higher incomes per capita have a smaller share of their workforces employed in agriculture. Most countries with more than 40 percent of their workforces employed in agriculture are in ...

New Zealand is a net exporter of farm commodities, sending crop and livestock commodities abroad worth $25 billion in 2020 and importing farm commodities worth $5 billion. NZ farm exports include ...