Specialty crop growers are anxiously waiting to see if the International Trade Commission moves in their favor on import dumping. 

Fourth-generation southwest Michigan farmer Fred Leitz grows cucumbers, tomatoes, apples, and blueberries.  He tells Brownfield he’s disappointed the ITC doesn’t consider labor as part of growers’ costs when building a case for import dumping.

“Any grower that I talk to in the Midwest will say that it’s the labor issue that is killing us,” he says.

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