Labour shortage has affected Norfolk County asparagus harvest
Farmers in Norfolk County, where most Canadian asparagus comes from, say a labour shortage caused by the COVID-19 will force them to leave as much as half their crop in the ground. Norfolk normally brings in 4,500 foreign workers to harvest and plant crops. After the federal government initially barred them from entering the country during the pandemic, workers contracted through the Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program have now started to land in Norfolk and gone into mandatory self-isolation for two weeks. Most seasonal foreign workers […]