It's been a great season for grain growers who are banking on a bumper Spring-Summer harvest after good rain. But there's a real fear they just won't have enough workers to bring in the crop.
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Border closures have shut out thousands of the skilled regulars who usually do the job.
The words 'market failure' are being whispered and forecasts of losses in the hundreds of millions of dollars unless federal and state governments find a fast solution.
Landline's Pip Courtney reports.
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