![]() “If you work for 40 hours, it’s just not, it’s not worth it.” “They need the opportunity to make their money in these few months and go back and do whatever they have to do,” said Eliseo Mendez Jr., who has worked at Hungenberg Produce for 30 years. Just up the road at Hungenberg Produce, workers like Perla Barrera are putting in long hours, too. “Personally, my motivation is for the experience, which I can apply in Ukraine later, and, of course, money.” “I’m local farm truck driver and I also manage truck drivers,” Goncharuk said. Goncharuk works well over 40 hours a week this time of year and banks that extra income to take back home after harvest. “I’ve been working here for Strohauer Farms for five years.” “I came from Ukraine,” Mytro Goncharuk said. Migrant workers have been coming here for decades for the seasonal jobs the farming industry provides. “Weld County was either the largest or one of the largest potato growing areas in the nation in the early 1900s,” said Amber Strohauer, whose family has been growing potatoes and other produce in Colorado for four generations. In the shadow of the Rocky Mountains on the plains of Colorado, the bounty of the season stretches as far as the eye can see.
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