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Capital & Main
Capital & Main
Mark Kreidler

Uncertain Harvest: Agriculture’s Season of Gloom

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For a brief moment, Donald Trump had it right. For all his administration’s vacillating threats to round up “illegals” and conduct mass deportations, the president’s own message, posted June 12 on Truth Social, rang utterly true to the core of American business — and its history.

“Our great Farmers and people in the Hotel and Leisure business have been stating that our very aggressive policy on immigration is taking good, longtime workers away from them, with those jobs being almost impossible to replace,” Trump wrote. “This is not good. We must protect our Farmers. … Changes are coming!”

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