The newest numbers from the U.S. Department of Agriculture show Washington’s farmers and ranchers went from last in earned income in 2024 to 30th in 2025. The data offers some hints about how the rebound happened and why it…
The U.S. Department of Labor’s new H-2A wage methodology has useful reforms, but a federal court finds it lacks adequate justification for key data, wage, and compensation assumptions Returning to the former, regional…
The U.S. Department of Labor’s new H-2A wage methodology has useful reforms, but a federal court finds it lacks adequate justification for key data, wage, and compensation assumptions Returning to the former, regional…
Just when it seems like Prop 12 might be a discussion topic of the past, it arrives again with a new twist. A Congressional effort to repeal Prop 12, the Save Our Bacon Act, found its way into the House-passed version of the…
The perennial labor shortage in our state seems to be continuing, according to new numbers announced by the American Farm Bureau Federation earlier this summer.Washington state moved from fifth to third in the nation in H-2A…
As millions of fans around the world tune in to the World Cup and travelers pour into the United States, they are experiencing far more than football, ahem soccer. They are discovering American communities, food, culture, and…
Tune in to the latest episode of Nebraskanomics as we welcome President of the Nebraska Farm Bureau, Mark McHargue. During the episode Mark and Platte CEO Jim Vokal discuss the impact of agriculture in Nebraska, next steps on…
This year’s legislative session featured proposals to “modernize” agriculture through the forced creation of collective bargaining units. Many activists and legislative advocates persistently implied farmers and ranchers were…
Joseph Glauber offers a one-year progress report on President Trump’s tariffs on agricultural products. One year after Liberation Day, the trade outlook for US agriculture remains murky. By the end of 2025, US agricultural…
There is this movie – either you love it or you hate it. At the beginning of that movie, though, there is a monologue that is pretty good and ruminates on the meaning of, well, love, but it works for food production, too … if…
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