Our fruit is rotting in the trees as laborers are kept out of the country
By Bruce Talbott
August 24 at 4:41 PM
Bruce Talbott and his family own Talbott’s Mountain Gold in Palisade, Colo.
For the past few months, our farm’s 57 field workers have been scrambling to pick 4,000 tons of peaches before they’re too ripe to ship across the Midwest. They’ve routinely put in 12-hour shifts and didn’t get a single day off for seven weeks straight.
It’s harvest season, when peaches must be picked in a short window of time. But over the century our farm has been in business, this year has been especially grueling. We’ve been so shorthanded that we lost 40,000 pounds of peaches because we couldn’t pick them fast enough. But we’re fortunate by comparison: Two farmers down the road had to walk away from entire orchards because their peaches had grown too soft to harvest.
more:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/our-fruit-is-rotting-in-the-trees-as-laborers-are-kept-out-of-the-country/2018/08/24/bf119ad6-a6e6-11e8-8fac-12e98c13528d_story.html?utm_term=.d83744064216
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