Mandated Wage Hikes Imperil Disappearing Family Farms, Panel Is Told
House committee calls on USDA, not the Department of Labor, to set pay scale for farmworkers. There are 544,000 fewer farms in the United States than there were in 1980 and more than 151 million acres formerly tilled are no longer producing commercial crops. There are myriad reasons why, but among most prominent—especially for the