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Top tourism award goes to Yuma Lettuce Days – Yuma Sun
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Top tourism award goes to Yuma Lettuce Days
Yuma Sun The longtime Yuma event, transformed this year to reflect Yuma's agricultural roots, was chosen as Arizona's best special event for 2010-11 and honored with the Governor's Tourism Award Thursday during a ceremony in … |
Arizona Veg IPM: CYSDV, sclerotinia lettuce drop, and sprangletop – Western Farm Press
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Arizona Veg IPM: CYSDV, sclerotinia lettuce drop, and sprangletop
Western Farm Press Past research conducted at the University of Arizona's Yuma Agricultural Center demonstrated that a three-week period of flooding in the summer destroyed all sclerotia of S. minor and S. sclerotiorum present in soil. Some growers in the Yuma area have … |
National Hispanic Repulican Group Wants Herman Cain to Quit Presidential Race – Tucson Citizen
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National Hispanic Repulican Group Wants Herman Cain to Quit Presidential Race
Tucson Citizen One need only look at the worker shortages in Georgia and Arizona agriculture sectors to see the dire consequences of enforcement-only strategies that don't address the needs of America's economy. 40% of Yuma Arizona's lettuce crop went un-harvested … |
Will Immigration Law Doom America’s Lettuce? – The Atlantic
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Will Immigration Law Doom America's Lettuce?
The Atlantic From November to March, major suppliers of lettuce, spinach, arugula, and radicchio all farm in and around Yuma, Arizona, a small town of steakhouses, … The Other Victim of Arizona Law: Lettuce |
Mechanization crucial for lettuce industry – Western Farm Press
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Mechanization crucial for lettuce industry
Western Farm Press When specialty crop machine specialist Mark Siemens joined the University of Arizona (UA) staff at the Yuma Agricultural Center (YAC) in Yuma, Ariz., … |
Today’s Other America. – Tapped (blog)
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Today's Other America.
Tapped (blog) In the shadows, Thompson picks up work alongside Mexican laborers in the winter lettuce fields of Yuma, Arizona, earning $8.37 per hour to pick, trim, … |
Farm Workers Wages: A Real Bargain – Triple Pundit
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Farm Workers Wages: A Real Bargain
Triple Pundit To put a face on the statistics about farmworkers, Thompson spent two months cutting lettuce in Yuma, AZ. He chronicled how hard farm work is on the body, … |
California lettuces moving for spring – The Packer
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California lettuces moving for spring
The Packer Most grower-shippers finished the last of their lettuce crops in Yuma, Ariz., and other desert areas in late March, moving equipment and field crews to … |
A writer works the jobs Americans don’t want, finding pride and that chicken … – Salon
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A writer works the jobs Americans don't want, finding pride and that chicken …
Salon The part of the book on working in Yuma, Ariz., lettuce fields is called "Salad Days." At first that just sounds like an ironic joke, but that time does … |
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