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With changing immigration policies, Northwest farmers say they're leaning more on the H-2A visa program to fill labor gaps. Domestic workers say they're losing ground.

Cherry growers say the threat of deportations under President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown is keeping the migrant workforce they rely on this time of year from showing up to work. They describe an increasingly urgent labor crisis that could leave cherries rotting in the field, and farmers holding the bill.

(Runtime 0:55)Jeff Leber of Umapine, Oregon, stands in the baking sun. He listens to the hiss of his grain getting sucked up into the bins, at the…

(Runtime :56)This year’s wine grape harvest is about two or three weeks later than usual, said Vicky Sharlau, executive director of the Washington Wine…

The latest harvest estimates say Washington ranchers will harvest nearly 153 million bushels of wheat and Oregon 44 million bushels. That’s around average for both states. A typical barge holds around 122,500 bushels of wheat — meaning 44 million bushels would be about 360 barges full of grain on the Snake and Columbia Rivers heading toward export terminals.