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...could not water them. Paul Pehrson's 20 acres of orange trees are literally dying before his eyes. "It would take me ten to 15 years to get started again," he says. "I can't face starting all over again." The only immediate remedy for orchard growers was an offer from a company in Los Angeles to provide water at nearly $90 per acre-foot (the usual price: $5). "I couldn't afford to pay that," said Walnut Grower Charles Jasper. "It would come to $27,000 a year, I figure...
...Project, which was scheduled to bring water from the Colorado River to the parched southern portion of the state by 1985. "Without CAP," said Wes Steiner, executive director of the state's water commission, "all agricultural production in Arizona would have to stop." Warned a pecan and cotton grower, Keith Walden: "Tucson will be covered up with sand and become a ghost town within a hundred years." Said Jack Francis Jr., co-owner of the state's biggest cotton-gin firm: "The news was like having your dad die when you're 17. You just aren...
Even when workers know of the regulations which are supposed to protect them, they may be stymied by a system of employment in which the worker hires out through a labor contractor without knowing even the name of the grower. Laborers are often forced to move on, following the harvests, with no ability to follow up on any claims of illness--much less press for safeguards from further pesticide poisoning...
...full damage to the orange crop will not be known for several weeks. Unlike much of the frigid U.S., Florida's crop growers would actually like the chilly weather to continue. A sudden flood of warm sunshine would accelerate the rotting of damaged fruit and increase the loss far beyond the $125 million already estimated. "All we need is a few days in the 80s," says Grower Karst, "and then you'll see a real disaster...
Died. Harry Wheatcroft, 78, flamboyant English rose grower; in Nottingham, England. Starting with one acre of land in 1919, Wheatcroft and his brother nurtured the business to sales of 1.5 million roses annually. To commemorate the wedding of the Queen's daughter to Capt. Mark Phillips, he crossbred a red and an orange rose and called the hybrid, simply, "Anne...