Apple harvest season last year brought home to Dale Foreman just how important a reliable labor force was to his apple-growing operation. Some of his apples went unpicked because of a labor shortage in Washington State, and some were picked too late for best quality and ended up going for processing. “Without ag labor reform, we are going to lose our investment in apples,” he said. That realization caused him to do things he had never before done. A lifelong Republican, a former member of the Washington House of Representatives and leader of the party in Washington State, he organized […]