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Latinos make up more than ⅔ of strawberry growers in California and 25% of them started out as field workers, the Commission reports. “Right now, we’re seeing more and more of the Latino ...
Gabriela Vivar rises at 4 a.m. each day to pick strawberries in the fields ... Maria Strawberry festival. Standing on the sidewalk, they chanted a call and response: “We are the workers.
A fence wraps around the strawberry field to keep out the animal, but if they manage to get through, deer can spread diseases from one plant to another as they work their way around the rows of ...
Now, add a shrinking agricultural workforce to the picture, and it cannot be clearer that strawberry farming needs ... reducing physical strain on human workers. But even with this improvement ...