U.S. farms are more and more reliant on contract employees who’re acutely uncovered to local weather extremes

Six years in the past, Illinois farmer John Ackerman did not rent any contract employees in any respect. Now he sometimes hires about 22 yearly by means of an area coordinator that helps farmers rent crews of agriculturally expert, usually Latino employees. Those groups hand-weed the soybeans Ackerman grows alongside the pumpkin and corn crops he makes use of for his primarily fall-focused agrotourism outfit.

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