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Monday, June 25, 2012

A summer bounty of worry

Adrian Hernandez picks asparagus with his wife Cerecita Diaz, at right, and mother, Hilda Hernandez. Washington asparagus growers expanded their acreage and produced and exceptional crop, but 10 percent stayed in the ground for lack of enough workers to harvest it.

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