Farmworker decline, higher wages trigger specialty crop mechanization
Story Date: 1/18/2017

 

Source: SOUTHEAST FARM PRESS, 1/18/17

Tom Hertz is a federal government data collector who studies and analyzes numbers to grasp a real-time view of the ever changing U.S.-Mexico farmworker-immigration issue.Hertz, a farm labor economist with the USDA’s Economic Research Service in Washington, DC, shared a hard drive worth of interesting farm labor data with farmers, including where farmworker numbers and wages are headed in the future...

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