Some Pacific Coast states got rain instead of snow, leading to floods. Colorado was the first of now 24 states that legalized recreational cannabis, with the first sales in 2014. Sales peaked at $2.2 ...

Canadian snowboarder Ryan Wedding (Thor) was arrested in Mexico in January 2026, charged with operating a cocaine-trafficking network. Mexico. The United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) will be ...

Farm cash receipts were $530 billion in 2025, and production expenses were $475 billion; USDA estimated that net farm income was $155 billion and projects broader similar receipts, expenses, and ...

President Trump in February 2026 repealed the Environmental Protection Agency’s “endangerment finding.” The EPA in 2009 concluded that six greenhouse gases pose a threat to public health and welfare ...

The Make America Healthy Again or MAHA movement is allowing some states to ban recipients of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) or food stamp benefits from using them to buy “junk food.” ...

Beef prices are high and rising. There are fewer cattle in feedlots, so beef processors must pay higher prices to obtain them and lose money slaughtering cattle. Poultry and pork are in ample supply ...

AB 1066, enacted in 2016, phased in overtime pay for farm workers on the same basis as nonfarm workers. All farm employers had to pay farm workers overtime wages on 8/40 basis beginning January 1, ...

Chavez had eight children with his wife, Helen Chavez, and fathered at least four more children with three other women. Huerta, who said that she had two children fathered by Chavez, waited 60 years ...

President Trump won re-election in November 2024 by promising to undo Biden policies that allowed the number of unauthorized and quasi-authorized migrants to surge to record levels. Trump 2.0’s first ...

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 ...

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 ...

Almost 13 million people or 30 percent of Thailand’s 42 million strong labor force are employed in agriculture. Most of those employed in Thai agriculture are self-employed Thai farmers and their ...