National Ag News

Growing labor shortages have led the country’s specialty crop industry to seek new and more mechanized means of farming.

California Farm Bureau president Paul Wenger says if continued worker shortages and immigration challenges can’t be alleviated, more needs to be done to find technical solutions and support for specialty crop research in the next farm bill.  “Specialized equipment, robotics and other tools can help us offset the growing labor shortage.”

Driscolls CEO Kevin Murphy, the world’s largest berry grower, says it’s not a matter of if anymore, it’s how.

Continue reading Mechanizing the specialty crop industry needs investment at Brownfield Ag News.