Closing culture gap down on the farm

“John Rosenow always thought of himself as a pretty good boss, but he never expected to find himself in rural Mexico, 2,000 miles from home, holding the 6-month-old daughter of an employee who had never seen her.

By the time he returned to Wisconsin, news of the meeting had already reached the baby’s father.

That trip in 2001 was the first for a group called Puentes, or Bridges, a cultural exchange program set up to address the growing number of Mexican workers at dairies in Wisconsin and Minnesota.”

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