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California Crops Rot as Immigration Crackdown Creates Farmworker Shortage

February 2, 2018/

Vegetable prices may be going up soon, as a shortage of migrant workers is resulting in lost crops in California.

Farmers say they’re having trouble hiring enough people to work during harvest season, causing some crops to rot before they can be picked. Already, the situation has triggered losses of more than $13 million in two California counties alone, according to NBC News.

By CHRIS MORRIS

http://fortune.com/2017/08/08/immigration-worker-shortage-rotting-crops/

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