Tuesday, July 3, 2007

Wheat Farmers May Face Grim Harvests After U.S. Immigration Measure Dies

(Bloomberg) -- The immigration bill that was killed
by the U.S. Senate focused on the nation's 12 million illegal
aliens. To many farmers, the issue is more about such people as
Thomas Murphy, an Irishman who leads a crew of combine operators
from the U.K., cutting wheat across a swath of the Great Plains.

Murphy's crew and 2,500 other skilled, legal immigrants who
come from places such as South Africa, Australia and New Zealand
to cut grain are among the most productive workers in the U.S.,
gathering one-third of all the wheat in a $7.7 billion market.


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