Word: kovacevich
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Winter is the slow part of the grape season, he says--Kovacevich's workers only fertilize and irrigate until March, when the vines begin to grow again...
...They wouldn't even be table grapes," Kovacevich says. "They'd be super tiny and crammed together...
...these procedures are both labor-intensive and crucial to the creation of a saleable table grape. Without a well-trained, well-paid and satisfied workforce, Kovacevich says, he could not produce quality fruit...
...work is so painstaking, Kovacevich says, that most growers insist on having women do the pre-harvest work...
...harvest time, Kovacevich employs about 400 workers at $5.75 per hour, plus an extra 20 cents per box. Because Kern Country employs more than 25,000 pickers in the harvest months, some workers arrive from Texas and Mexico, but Kovacevich says his workforce is still 75 percent local...