welcomingidaho
Meat plant workers
Visit us at www.welcomingidaho.org
Idaho’s agriculture industry has long reaped the rewards of immigrant labor. In the early 1900s, the U.S. government subsidized the development of Idaho’s agriculture industry by facilitating irrigation projects and railroad construction.
For the labor needed for these projects, growers and industrialists turned to immigrants. Japanese immigrants became the backbone of Idaho’s sugar beet industry, and labor recruiters actively sought Mexicans living in Mexico and other U.S. states for farm jobs.
Idaho agriculture continues to prosper from the work of immigrants, particularly those from Mexico. And Idaho’s meatpacking industry has also come to depend on the contributions of immigrant laborers, who put food on the table for Idaho, the United States, and the world.
Courtesy of Claudio Beagarie.
Meat plant workers
Visit us at www.welcomingidaho.org
Idaho’s agriculture industry has long reaped the rewards of immigrant labor. In the early 1900s, the U.S. government subsidized the development of Idaho’s agriculture industry by facilitating irrigation projects and railroad construction.
For the labor needed for these projects, growers and industrialists turned to immigrants. Japanese immigrants became the backbone of Idaho’s sugar beet industry, and labor recruiters actively sought Mexicans living in Mexico and other U.S. states for farm jobs.
Idaho agriculture continues to prosper from the work of immigrants, particularly those from Mexico. And Idaho’s meatpacking industry has also come to depend on the contributions of immigrant laborers, who put food on the table for Idaho, the United States, and the world.
Courtesy of Claudio Beagarie.