A focus on the farm workforce

A focus on the farm workforce

While much of the ag industry has struggled with labor shortages, the CEO of Sunripe Certified Brands says his organization has had the opposite problem.

Jon Esformes told attendees of the recent Ag Outlook Forum, hosted by the USDA, that his company has more workers inquiring about jobs than positions available.  “The word went out, after our first season, to workers in Mexico that we were a Fair Food Program farm and the experience there was different than in other agricultural cultures,” he says. 

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