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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
• Advertiser Index
• Classifieds
• Last Bite- Royal Ann
• Good Deals
• New California cherry board proposed
• Grape calculators revised