N.C. farming has a labor crisis
Monday, October 31st, 2005
By Chris Fitzsimon
By Marta Hummel
Staff Writer
Moises Torres Ramirez came to the United States looking more like an urban cowboy than a farmhand.
He wore a leather jacket in the mid-July heat, a tight T-shirt and jeans, cowboy boots and sunglasses, a gold cross dangling off his neck. He joked around and smiled big.
Like thousands of his Mexican countrymen, he had come north to work as many hours as he could fit in four months on a North Carolina farm.
Time was money, and if enough hours fell his way, he could make enough to support his family for the year. (more…)
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