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Vanishing Field Labor Damages U.S. Agricultural Industry

In the midst of a record-breaking drought now crippling U.S. farmers and ranchers, another shortage compounds the damage: vanishing field laborers that harvest the nation’s crops. Perhaps the 2004 movie “A Day Without a Mexican” should get a second look.

Illegal immigrants do backbreaking, often dangerous jobs for minimal wages; jobs that Americans don’t want.

"There's a different sort of drought plaguing California, the nation's largest farm state. It's $38 billion agricultural sector is facing a scarcity of labor." Jane Wells, CNBC

From CNBC

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“Suicide belt” farmers fight Monsanto’s modern-day sharecropping practices.

More Monsanto madness! “Suicide belt” farmers are retaliating against modern-day sharecropping practices, exploiting independent agricultural farmers through private taxes.

From Nation of Change:

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