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A study by a Bay Area think tank suggests California’s key industries would suffer without undocumented immigrant workers.
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Tankhouses were once a common sight with small farms across the San Joaquin Valley.
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Over half of California farmworkers are undocumented. Recent raids have put the industry on edge.
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Harris was behind one of the most prominent business operations in the San Joaquin Valley, which touches on farming, hospitality and horse breeding.
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The offices provide key services to growers in Kern and Madera Counties.
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Reza Ehsani, mechanical engineering professor at the University of California, Merced, is one of the professors guiding students to research and develop agriculture tech that could be commercialized.
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Drew Ketelsen, vice president and farm manager at HMC Farms, says adopting the latest in agtech has created a safer work environment for field workers, and it has added efficiency to the day-to-day.
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By making ranchers responsible for damage to crops from livestock, the "No Fence Law" helped grow the valley's farms.
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Minna Eshleman ran the Minnewawa Ranch and was a pioneer in her scientific approach to agriculture.
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A honeybee research organization estimates as many as 1.6 million hives - more than half the country’s cultivated honeybee population - died off this past winter.