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Farm workers Key to Farms |
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For more than 50 years, I have worked with farm labor, mostly with Mexican nationals, first working alongside braceros in the early '50s on my father's farm; then as a regulator with the State Farm Labor Service; as a manager of a large citrus farm; as a consultant on labor issues to farm operations; and, even lately, as a spiritual voice for farmworkers as an ordained minister in my church.
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Featured Artical BLOOMINGDALE -- Gabriel Barajas is the picture of success. At 21, this handsome young man with the slightest mustache sits in his kitchen and explains how he might start a fresh blueberry marketing business. | |
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Hispanic American Outreach |
 Since July 1996, the Hispanic American Outreach Program has been an integral part of the FSA efforts to provide better services to all farmers and ranchers seeking agricultural assistance. The Administrator of the FSA established the program with a mission to provide leadership, coordination, facilitation and expertise to internal and external partners to ensure equal and timely access to FSA programs and services for all constituents, with emphasis on the underserved. FSA programs are directed primarily at agricultural producers or, in the case of loans, at those with farming experience. Three to five person county committees, elected by local farmers, play an important role in carrying out programs at the county level. |
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