Good Fruit Grower
January 2012
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Good Job
Good Fruit Growers of the Year: Honors go to Mark, David, Ted, and John Rice at Rice Fruit Company in Pennsylvania.
Challenges Lead to changes
Quality fruit is Rice heritage: R & L Orchards contracts with Columbia Fruit Company in Washington State to grow and sell Kiku apple.
Hort leaders discuss top issues of coming year
What Changes will you make in 2012? Growers express frustration about the limited options they have to find enough workers
More rules proposedon child labor
Wheres the leadership on labor? Could Washington State develop a pilot program to bring in foreign guest-workers?
Good Point: Labor outlook is poor
Georgia peach growers use H-2A: Its a way to avoid the impact of Georgias anti-illegal-immigrant law.
H-2A is not for everyone: Employers who try to use it should be considered heroes.
Washingtons grape crop down in 2011: Harvest was very late last year, and yields varied widely.
Good To Go
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Last Bite- Royal Ann
Good Deals
New California cherry board proposed
Grape calculators revised
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