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Title: U.S. Farmers Shifting to Mexico
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ACRES USA Nov. 2007
URL Source: http://acresusa.com
Published: Dec 10, 2007
Author: Editor
Post Date: 2007-12-10 17:49:38 by richard9151
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California farmer Steve Scaroni built a $50 million business growing lettuce and broccoli, depending on immigrant workers, but last year he began shifting part of his operations to rented fields in Mexico. Now, about one-fifth of his business comes out of nearly 2,000 acres on five farms in Guanajuato. About 500 Mexicans run his operation, and Scaroni is happy: the workers run no risk of deportation, and Scaroni runs no risk of labor loss due to immigration raids. He's not alone. Western Growers, a California-Arizona farm association, conducted a spring survey among its members. Twelve afribusinesses admitted that they have operations in Mexico with 11,000 workers. Statistics are hard to come by because no one says much. But California's Senator Dianne Feinstein recently displayed a map to her collefues showing more than 46,000 acres that Americans are cultivating in the Mexican states of Baja and Guanajuato. "American farmers are renting land in Mexico," she said. "They don't want us to know that." Scaroni has made six trips to Washington pleading for more legal agricultural workers. "I have a customer base that demands we produce and deliver product every day. They don't want to hear excuses. I'm as American as it gets," he said, "but I'm tired of fighting the fight on the immigration issue." Yes sir, while the fools see nothing but the lies told by the major media, another nail is put in the coffin of America's ability to sustain herself. After all, who needs food?
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Yes sir, while the fools see nothing but the lies told by the major media, another nail is put in the coffin of America's ability to sustain herself. After all, who needs food?
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