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Big tomato grower shuts down this year
Northwest Ohio’s only fresh market tomato producer is shutting operations this summer – a move that will cost him millions of dollars – because he can’t attract enough migrant workers to pick his crops. Charles Jones, 70, owner of Charles Jones Produce LLC, in Oak Harbor, recently informed the Toledo-based Farm Labor Organizing Committee of the decision, said its President Baldemar Velasquez. The farm labor organization represents the 500 farm workers that are usually employed by the tomato grower.

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