Could California produce soon cost you more? Farms face labor shortages, immigration woes
Story Date: 1/28/2019

 

Source: MSN, 1/27/19

On a recent sunny morning, Isidro Fuentes spent several hours thinning out two-week-old rows of romaine lettuce. In years past, that job would have been done by 30 people. But today Fuentes, 56, sits alone atop a tractor with a specialized mechanical attachment that handles the entire operation. “This is the future,” he says.

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