September 2006

• Labor Contractor Accuses Grower Of Hiring Illegals A farm-labor contractor is suing a grower in California for breach of contract. Though it sounds fairly straightforward, the case could be the opening of a new front in the ongoing war over illegal immigration.
• Law: Farmers Receive 100 Percent Tax Credit On Development Rights A federal law changed recently, and in California a vineyard owner who worked hard for its passage stepped forward to be one of the first to make use of it.
• Oklahoma Farm Shows Kids How Things Grow Search the Internet with the phrase “starting a farm” and you’ll be given 37 million pieces of advice. Weeding out the good advice from the bad and the practical from the impossible seems as though it would take forever. It took Jim and Cathie Greene just six years.
• Summer Editorial Intern Bids Readers Farewell