Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Slow Flow of Immigrants Already Impacting California Farms?

Farms all over the country are having problems just like these; there are not enough workers. - - Donna Poisl

By Elena Shore and Jonah Most

The number of immigrants illegally crossing into the United States from Mexico has declined according to a new study, and some California farmers are already seeing the effects on their crops.

“We’ve seen in the valley this year a reduction of labor that we haven’t seen for five or six years,” said Manuel Cunha, president of the Nisei Farmers League in Fresno, Calif.

“There could be crops that could go down as being damaged because they cannot be harvested fast enough. Many of the vegetables growing in the valley are going to be in competition for the labor as well,” he said. “You’re going to see rotting.”
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