Source: THE JOURNAL, 10/4/19

Editor’s note: The following article is the first in a two-part series on the impact of the foreign-worker shortage on agriculture. The second article in the series will address support of an improved guest-worker program.

Gilbert Castellanos said he remembers when people “would fight each other to work in the fields.” Today he struggles to find enough workers to complete the harvest on his 300 acres of oranges, stone fruits and grapes in California’s Central Valley. He has abandoned plots because he couldn’t find enough workers to harvest them.

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