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 ...

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.” ...

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 ...

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 ...

President Trump in February 2026 repealed the Environmental Protection Agency’s “endangerment finding.”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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

The share of US workers who were union members fell to 10 percent in 2022, down from 20 percent in 1983. The wage and salary workforce rose by 50 percent between 1983 and 2022 while the number of ...

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 ...