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On the recordApril 21, 2013
If you paid them $40 an hour, you probably could, but nobody would be left in American agriculture.
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Lindsey Graham
Republican · South Carolina

Editor's note · Context

Graham discusses the challenges of attracting American workers to agriculture.

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