Even amid high unemployment, California farmers say they long for a larger labor force.
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A tractor pulls a bin being fed by an olive-harvesting machine at Cortopassi Farms in Lodi. Over the past decade, new olive growers and olive oil producers have been planting olives in super high-density grids and switching from hand labor to mechanized labor. Farmers say a shortage of laborers is worsening.
