U.S. farm industry groups want President-elect Donald Trump to spare their sector from his promise of mass deportations, which could upend a food supply chain heavily dependent on immigrants in the United States illegally.

So far Trump officials have not committed to any exemptions, according to interviews with farm and worker groups and Trump’s incoming “border czar” Tom Homan.

Nearly half of the nation’s approximately 2 million farm workers lack legal status, according to the departments of Labor and Agriculture, as well as many dairy and meatpacking workers.

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    23 hours ago

    Buy only what’s in season

    That gets a lot easier the further south you happen to be.

    Not a lot of locally grown fruit and veggies in season for the next 6 months up here in the snowing latitudes.

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      Not a lot of locally grown fruit and veggies in season for the next 6 months up here in the snowing latitudes.

      Oh how we’ve lost touch with our food :(

      Root vegetables and winter squash are available all winter. Carrots will store for a year. Butternut and similar squashes almost as long. Beets, onions, cabbage… Potatoes less so but still 6-9 months or longer. Right at this moment I’m eating some very fresh blackberries that freeze perfectly along with some pears that I picked over a month ago and which will last probably until January. Later today I’m going to make a nice stew using some canned tomatoes, frozen garlic scapes and a bunch of other random things none of which were harvested recently.

      Cole crops will grow pretty well even in weather well below freezing - e.g. kale, turnips, cabbage, etc. A good frost cover (remay/agribon/old blanket) will help greatly.

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        23 hours ago

        Carrots will store for a year. Butternut and similar squashes almost as long. Beets, onions, cabbage… Potatoes less so but still 6-9 months or longer

        Obviously, but that’s not fresh, in-season fruit and vegatables, which is what I was specifically addressing.

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          18 hours ago

          Why do you need a constant supply of fresh, in-season fruit and "vegatables?