July 2007
- Exotic Vegetables Cater to Needs of Immigrant Groups When the price of field corn nearly doubled last year, farmers responded. They added 10 million acres to the planting schedule this spring.
- Growers Need to be Proactive to Attract, Keep Good Workers When Gregory Billikopf goes into a field to watch farm workers pick produce, it’s not hard for him to figure out their pay system. If they’re all moving together in a row across the field, with no one too far ahead or too far behind, they’re probably being paid by the hour.
- Outlook Mixed for Supply of Workers The shortage of farm workers growers had been fearing had not shown up by Memorial Day. And with Congress hotly debating new immigration policy that might take the pressure off the thousands of undocumented seasonal workers, growers were decidedly less nervous.
- Time to Lobby for Immigration Reform Legislation
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