Having to rely on migrant labor has never been an easy game for fruit growers in British Columbia, Canada. While a highly mobile work force—usually students from Quebec and other parts of Canada—has traditionally given the industry access to a large pool of people able and willing to move to where work needs to be done, Bruno Gutknecht remembers some horror stories. “A month before picking, a person starts to get tensed up,” says Gutknecht, who has seen 52 crops since he returned to his parents’ farm near Vernon in 1960 and took over the business. He now farms 70 […]