California had farm sales of $51 billion in 2021, up from $49 billion in 2020 and 1.5x the farm sales of Iowa. California accounted for 12 percent of US farm sales of $434 billion in 2021, including ...

The federal minimum wage has been $7.25 an hour since 2009. Some states, counties and cities have raised their minimum wages above the federal level, so that 60 percent of US workers in 2019 were in ...

Trade was in the news in 2025 because of President Trump’s trade war. After imposing tariffs on a wide range of products and countries, the US in Fall 2025 imposed average tariffs of 19 percent, the ...

The Census of Agriculture, conducted every five years, collects detailed data on the agricultural sector, including the cost of hired farm labor. Labor expenses have been about 13 percent of farm ...

President Trump pledged to deport a million unauthorized foreigners during his first year in office, almost 3,000 a day. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent arrests of unauthorized ...

In June 1975, California enacted the Agricultural Labor Relations Act (ALRA), the first law that gave farm workers the right to organize unions. Congress was considering pro-union amendments to the ...