Green gold of Salinas Valley

Duration: 0:17:00

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Tells the story of the highly mechanized and industrialized lettuce farming of the Salinas Valley in California. Shows how the crop is handled from start to finish almost entirely by machinery on belt-line production principles and by wage earners who are more like factory workers than the usual farm workers. Describes the steps in lettuce production, from soil preparation to packing and distributing.

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