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Program Takes Fight against Virus to Colorado Farms.

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| September 05, 2003 | This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Byline: Coleman Cornelius

Sep. 5--PLATTEVILLE, Colo.--By 10 a.m. Thursday, migrant farmworkers had been harvesting onions for seven hours in a field filled with pungent odors and the smell of manure from a nearby cattle feedlot.

With music from a Spanish-language radio station blaring from car speakers in the background, some 45 workers knelt on the ground and others bent over rows of plants at Mayer Farms near Platteville. They pulled onions from aromatic soil with dirt- caked hands, rhythmically slicing off green tops with shears and dropping the vegetables into white plastic buckets.

As the buckets filled, the laborers transferred onions to burlap sacks, which sat in tidy lines in the field surrounded by irrigation ditches holding stagnant water. Each 100-pound sack would yield 60…

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