Jeff Witte

The United States is not the only country dealing with labor shortages in agriculture. That was the point made recently by New Mexico Secretary of Agriculture Jeff Witte.   “We were in Mexico late last year we were down in lower Chihuahua they have some beautiful apple orchards and beautiful agriculture in Mexico, guess who was working the fields, wasn't people from Mexico,  it was Guatemalans,” W

Because of the impact the partial government shutdown is having on American farmers and ranchers, the National Association of State Departments of Agriculture is calling on Congress and the Administration to rapidly get to a settlement and end the shutdown as soon as possible...