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 ...

Economic development often decreases the supply of seasonal farm workers faster than the demand for such workers, leading to complaints of farm labor shortages. Most countries richer than their ...

The US has 50 million or almost 20 percent of the world’s 280 million international migrants, far more than Germany (16 million), Saudi Arabia (13 million), and Russia (12 million). The US admits over ...

The UN in July 2024 projected that the world’s population of 8.2 billion would peak at 10.3 billion in 2084 and decline to 10.2 billion by 2100. When the world’s population peaks in 60 years, the UN ...

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 ...

Census of Agriculture data released in February 2024 found that US farm sales were $543 billion in 2022, including $280 billion or 52 percent from the sale of crops and $260 billion from the sale of ...

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 ...

World wine production exceeds wine consumption, putting downward pressure on wine prices. Global wine production was 258 million hectoliters or 6.9 billion gallons in 2022, while global wine ...

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 ...

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 ...

The US imports 60 percent of the fresh fruit and 40 percent of the fresh vegetables available to US residents. Mexico is the leading supplier of fresh fruit and vegetable imports. The import share of ...

The World Bank’s 2023 World Development Report estimated that almost 300 million people were international migrants in 2023, including 260 million or 85 percent who were in the labor force of their ...