Trump’s policies ‘should be turning off farmers’ – why did so many vote for him?

Plans of deportation and trade wars should concern farmers, yet they backed him by a three-to-one marginEvery year, farmers in California’s Central valley heavily rely on the labor of hundreds of thousands of immigrant agricultural workers to grow and harvest their crops.But for many in a region that produces one-quarter of the country’s food, president-elect Donald Trump’s promise to deport millions of undocumented migrants – a move that could result in national agricult