Trump advisors drew up plans to deport unauthorized foreigners in the US and to reduce legal immigration, which averages 1.1 million a year. Some of these policies were tried and blocked by courts ...

The US has nine million dairy cows, two-thirds on farms with 1,000 or more cows and 1.7 million or 20 percent in California. Bird flu was found in 645 of the state?s herds, many in the leading dairy ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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, ...

GAO . The GAO released a report (25-106389) in November 2024 that called for more oversight of the H-2A program and enforcement of H-2A regulations. The number of H-2A jobs quadrupled between FY13 and ...

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 ...