Farm Workers Harvest in the Moonlight
La Opinion, Posted: May 26, 2008
IMPERIAL VALLEY, Calif.—Instead of starting their day at four in the morning, when temperatures average 80 degrees, migrant farm workers have started harvesting crops at 10 p.m. at night, to avoid the extreme heat of the day, reports Spanish Language newspaper, La Opinion. The temperature in the Imperial Valley averages 106 degrees, and “we are just in May,” said Delia Gomez, a farm worker supervisor who has been harvesting for 20 years. Gomez told La Opinion that the change is for the better, since the day’s heat and the hot crops burn the workers, in spite of their protective clothing. Imperial Valley closely borders Mexico and Arizona.
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