On the other hand, strawberrygrowersin centralCaliforniado notbenefitfromearlierharvest market-wise, butplasticmulch is widelyused foranotherpurpose, specificallyfruitquality.
California grows most of the strawberry crop in the United States.
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Consider the strawberry farmer in Oxnard, California, who told CNN that not once in 25 years of planting and harvesting had an American citizen ever asked for a job picking strawberries.