When the Cap Binds: The H-2B Guest Worker Program
Many non-agricultural industries rely on the H-2B program to employ foreign guest workers for temporary…
Author Diane Charlton
Diane Charlton
Diane Charlton is an assistant professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Economics at Montana State University. She received her Ph.D. in agricultural economics from the University of California, Davis. She has done research on agricultural labor markets in Mexico and the United States along with researching the determinants of migration. She never tires of talking about agriculture with her sister and brother-in-law from their almond orchard in the Central Valley of California, and she is looking forward to learning more about and researching agricultural production in Montana and the northern Great Plains.
Drought, Cattle Inventories, and Prices
As smoke from wildfires fills the sky, most everyone is looking at the parched land…
North American Trade of Wheat, Pulses, Cattle, and Beef
When I attended the Montana Ag Summit in Great Falls this month, several of the…
Montana: A Honey State
Honey is probably not one of the primary agricultural products that most people associate with…
Tariffs: An Often Effective (But Potentially Costly) Policy Measure
There has been recent discussion in the White house of using tariffs to achieve certain…
(Podcast) Episode 012: Impacts of Trump’s Immigration Policies on Ag
Did you know that in 2012, 53% of agricultural labor were unauthorized hired farmworkers? Anton…
Agricultural Employees Still Exempt from Overtime Pay
Today, the Department of Labor is scheduled to update overtime qualifications for “white collar” workers…
More Schools, Fewer Farm Workers
Rural Mexico in Transition Out of Farm Work In a recent article, Ed Taylor and…
(Podcast) Episode 007: Spotlight on Diane Charlton
Anton Bekkerman chats with Dr. Diane Charlton, who discusses labor supply issues in U.S. agriculture and…