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GREELEY- —Dave Petrocco spent last fall watching on average about 10 employees leave his vegetable fields each week, never to return.
He would then begin a weekly search for 10 new faces, with each infusion of new workers requiring time-consuming training.
Many would only last a couple of weeks — if that long. In struggling to keep enough hired hands out on his 2,600 acres of farm ground that stretch from Brighton to north of Greeley, Petrocco estimates that, when all was said and done, his operation was unable to harvest about 10 percent of its crops in 2011.
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