National Ag News

A blueberry grower says he concerned about how the Trump administration’s stance on immigration could impact the ag labor supply.

Arthur Thomas farms in the heart of Southwest Michigan’s blueberry country in Grand Junction. He tells Brownfield a migrant workforce is vitally important to specialty crop farmers and consumers.  “If you want blueberries and strawberries and raspberries, you want zucchinis and peppers and all of those good things, we have to have this labor force.”  He says a domestic workforce is not available to fill field and processing jobs which means the industry has to have access to migrant labor.

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