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“The farmers who grow most of the nation’s winter vegetable crop say they won’t have enough workers ”” legal or otherwise ”” to harvest all the produce when the season hits high gear next month.
Growers in the winter farm belt that stretches east from California’s arid Imperial Valley to Yuma County in Arizona will fill barely half the 50,000 field hand positions needed to gather the region’s tons of ripening produce, according to Western Growers, a trade group whose members account for 90% of the nation’s winter lettuce, broccoli, cauliflower and other vegetables….”
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