Colo. corn farmer has trouble finding US workers
Story Date: 9/7/2011

 

Source: DESERET NEWS, 9/5/11

Despite high unemployment, one western Colorado farmer says he can't find enough local workers to help pick corn. John Harold, an Olathe Sweet corn producer, said he decided to try to hire more homegrown workers this summer because he thought more Americans needed jobs and because the cost of hiring legal, immigrant workers rose under the federal H2A visa program.

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