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President Trump took office on January 20, 2025 and issued over 100 Executive Orders in his first 80 days in office to, inter alia, reduce the federal workforce, eliminate DEI programs, deport ...
Cal-Maine accounts for 20 percent of US eggs, and the top five producers account for half of US eggs. Cal-Maine’s profits tripled in 2025 compared to the same quarter of 2024 as wholesale prices rose ...
Plenty, a vertical farm backed by $940 billion in funding from investors that include Driscoll’s (DLD Ventures), Walmart and Softbank, announced that it was reorganizing under Chapter 11 in March 2025 ...
Britain. Labor PM Keir Starmer won election in 2024 by promising to stop migrants from crossing the English Channel from France; 37,000 crossed in 2024. French police destroy dinghies that they find ...
President Trump in March 2025 threatened 25 percent tariffs on all goods imported from Canada and Mexico except Canadian oil. Mexico was the top trading partner of the US in 2024, supplying over 40 ...
After 18 months, no Florida employers were fined by the state for failing to use E-Verify and there were few reported business disruptions. Large farmers and FLCs say that they rely more on H-2A than ...
Trump ended the CHNV program in April 2025 that allowed 500,000 citizens of Cuba, Nicaragua, Haiti and Venezuela with US sponsors to fly to the US and work for two years while they sought asylum, ...
The UFW was certified as the representative of 525 workers at sweet potato producer Vieira Agricultural Enterprises (AV Thomas) in Atwater after submitting 272 signed authorization cards June 12, 2024 ...
An average 545,000 workers are employed by 4,500 establishments in NAICS 3116, animal slaughtering and processing, earning an average $1,050 a week in 2024 or $26 an hour. Over half of meat employment ...