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he stay-at-home orders issued in March to slow the spread of COVID-19 exempted essential farmworkers. This article addresses three major questions: will there be enough farmworkers in California for the remainder of 2020, how can farmworkers be kept safe at work and home, and how will COVID-19 influence key long-term trends linked to farm labor, including rising wages and the growth of mechanization, migrant guest worker programs and imports of fresh produce?
Philip Martin (Mon,) studied this question.