State's farms cultivating migrant labor

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | June 7, 2007| | Copyright

Washington - A partner in Wisconsin's largest Christmas tree farm, John Ahl is watching the immigration debate closely. Most of the 125 employees of Northern Christmas Trees & Nursery near Black River Falls are temporary workers from Mexico.

Ahl, 54, who with his wife and her parents has a 6,600-acre operation, said he was hard-pressed to hire locals for jobs starting at about $10 an hour, tending trees, shrubs and nursery plants. Even those without many skills prefer air-conditioned office jobs to what Ahl called "stoop labor" in Merrillan.

"The dairy farmers, they all have migrants now," he ...

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