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Mike Conaway: “Without the dedicated and skilled workers to harvest the fruit and vegetable crops grown here in this country, logic…”

On the recordFebruary 27, 2017
Without the dedicated and skilled workers to harvest the fruit and vegetable crops grown here in this country, logic dictates that we as a nation will then have to source those commodities from other countries.
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Mike Conaway
Texas

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Warning about the risks of relying on foreign sources for food due to labor shortages.

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