Dairy farmers learn about immigration... in Mexico!

WHAM 13 can now reveal that:

Upstate New York dairy farmers are heading to Mexico to better understand what drives their workers thousands of miles to find jobs in our neighborhood.

Willow Bend Farm in Clifton Springs started 50 years ago with just one employee and a few cows. As the cattle grew into the thousands, the need for help grew, and in the 1990s the Mueller family turned to immigrant workers from Mexico for farm hands.

...John Davies is headed to Veracruz next week in a trip organized by Cornell Cooperative Extension to help dairy farmers relate to their workers. The farmers will spend a week in Mexico, learning about traditional farming, customs and life in their workers' home villages...

What WHAM won't reveal is that this program - and the associated articles - are highly similar to one in Wisconsin promoted by fellow dairy farmer John Rosenow. Are such programs and the associated propaganda simply a coincidence?

Immigration · Thu, 01/11/2007 - 11:55 · · Importance: 1

Comments

Was is this new-fangled thing called a 'dairy industry'? I guess we never had one of those before we had Mexicans to work in it.

Posted by: eh at Jan 12, 2007 11:36 AM

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