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Month: November 2014

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Some A-Bee-C’s about Bees

… I still got to check out a couple beehives up close and personal, and I also got to learn quite a bit about bees and honey. Continue reading Some A-Bee-C’s about Bees

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Food: Half of all farmworkers in the United States are undocumented. A mass deportation program would lead to reduced domestic production and increased reliance on imports. Pierre Mérel, an agricultural and resource economics expert at the University of California, Davis, says labor-intensive fruit and vegetable harvesting would be most affected. Based on a 2022 study he co-authored, Mérel estimates that a 50 percent decrease in the farm labor supply could result in a 21 percent increase in the prices of hand-picked crops. “If [immigrant workers] just disappeared overnight,” says Andrew Mickelsen, whose family operates a potato farm in Idaho, “[the sector] would be devastated...I do not think that we in this country could grow enough food.” ... See MoreSee Less

How Trump’s “mass deportation” plan would ruin America

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It would be brutal, costly, and likely illegal.
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“The Big Island industry already suffers from too few pickers. If this exacerbates the problem, we’ll have less coffee harvested,” he said. While this could increase prices, he added that there is currently an excess amount of unsold coffee available. ... See MoreSee Less

ICE raids in Hawaii rattle communities, threaten Kona coffee harvest

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In early May, ICE carried out immigration enforcement operations across the islands of Oahu, Kauai, Maui and Hawaii.
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