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Scientists seeking ways to fight the disease are now experimenting with fungicides derived from petroleum. Other fungicides, containing copper-sulfate solution, have already been used successfully in Africa, but they are usually too costly for the small grower. There is an added expense: because the fungus clings to the undersides of the leaves, safe from aerial attacks, the spraying must be done by hand...
Over the weekend, Chavez won a contract with the biggest grower in the valley, Inter-Harvest Inc., which is connected with the giant United Fruit. Worried that a boycott of United Fruit bananas might replace the celebrated grape boycott, Inter-Harvest agreed to wages well above the Teamsters demands and gave field hands a voice in the use of pesticides and union jurisdiction over foremen. While U.F.W.O.C. leaders called the contract "a shot in the arm," the Inter-Harvest contract angered the remaining growers, some of whom were letting acres of vegetables rot. Yet the Salinas Valley vegetable growers lost...
Larson, a husky personable California grower, admitted that there are both bad and good growers, but protested that the innocent growers, such as himself, are being hurt by the boycott without any remedy for their plight...
...much as 90%. Steyer had hoped to sell 20,000 trees this year. Instead, customers have been driving away in empty trucks, unwilling to take the stunted and mis-shapen trees. "I think I'm out of business," Steyer says sadly. Dr. Franklin Custer, the other principal tree grower near Mount Storm, used to cut 10,000 trees a year. This season he expects to chop fewer than 1,000. One scraggly group of trees, only two miles from the belching smokestacks, may well be Custer's last stand on that site...
...great difference between the two is that the picker will subsist on welfare the rest of the year, the grower will...