Marcelo Hernandez Castillo

Jun 15, 2024 | citylights.com | Marcelo Hernandez Castillo |Brenda Shaughnessy

"In the collection, which takes its title from the Spanish word for birdsong, to sing of one's undocumented life is to risk being consumed by it: 'The song becoming / the bird becoming / the song, ' the poet writes. 'The bird unraveled its song and became undone.' And yet, in the collection's first poem, the desire to tell the story is also inescapable." -The Paris Review"Castillo resists resignation to silence; his poems embody a belief in art's transformative ability.

Jul 24, 2023 | ers.usda.gov | Jonathan Law |Tatiana D. Borisova |Marcelo Hernandez Castillo

by Anil K. Giri, Dipak Subedi, Jonathan Law, Tatiana Borisova, and Marcelo Castillo Total labor expenses (both hired and contract labor expenses) for the U.S. agriculture sector are forecast to be $42.09 billion for 2023, based on the February 2023 forecast by USDA, Economic Research Service.

Jun 15, 2023 | ers.usda.gov | Skyler Simnitt |Marcelo Hernandez Castillo

by Skyler Simnitt, Philip Martin, and Marcelo Castillo Highlights: Because apples can bruise easily and vary in how they ripen, growers rely more heavily on manual labor than on machines during harvest. A dependence on hired workers means labor is among the biggest expenses for U.S. apple growers, accounting for up to one-fourth of production costs. The United States is a major producer and exporter of apples, led by orchards in the State of Washington.