Immigrant worker shortage could mean fewer crops

We will all start seeing produce shortages and higher prices if all farmers have to cut back like this. - - Donna Poisl

Written by Jerry Carnes

ATLANTA, Ga. -- Some Georgia farmers have indicated they're not going to plant any fall crops as they continue to struggle with an immigrant labor shortage.

At Minor Brothers farm in Sumter County, owner Dick Minor says the labor shortage cost him tens of thousands of dollars.

"We left quite a bit in the field," said Minor. "We didn't have enough labor to pick our entire cucumber crop. We left probably 20 to 25-percent of it."
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